Missile crisis: from Cuba 1962 to Ukraine 2024
The missile crisis of October 1962 was probably the moment when the world came closest to a nuclear conflagration between ...
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North Korea flexes nuclear muscle with first images of uranium enrichment facility
North Korea is flexing its nuclear muscle. Official propaganda for the isolated republic on Friday published for the first time ...
Jimena Canales, scientific historian: “All the technologies that have changed the world have been related to demons”
Demons have accompanied science throughout the centuries. But those in laboratories are not supernatural creatures, but rather questions, paradoxes, mysteries ...
The Earth’s core recoils
A study has just confirmed that the Earth's inner core is receding with respect to the surface, according to new ...
Why stepping on a butterfly can have serious consequences
There is a symbol that is constantly repeated in the imagination of people of science. It is an incandescent point ...
Why stepping on a butterfly can have serious consequences
There is a symbol that is constantly repeated in the imagination of people of science. It is an incandescent point ...
A Japanese survivor of the atomic bomb: “20 years ago a film like 'Oppenheimer' was unthinkable in the United States”
The movie Oppenheimer has achieved a box office record when it premiered in Japan last weekend thanks, in part, to ...
Bomb news: the nuclear threat is reborn in books, series and movies
The screen is occupied by a scientist who, with eyes like two light bulbs in all their electrical splendor, seems ...
Controversy with the Anthropocene: humanity still does not know in which geological epoch it lives
The idea of the Anthropocene—that humanity has been living since 1950 in a new geological epoch characterized by human pollution—has ...
Paolo Giordano: “Writing is a way of telling the truth through the reinvention of reality”
Between the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, which was held shortly after the jihadist attack in the Bataclan hall, and the ...