Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’
Addictions hijack the brain, subduing it until it gives up on its most basic needs. Even eating and drinking — ...
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Does menopause decrease sexual desire?
To begin with, you should know that sexuation is a process that takes place from birth to death. Sexuation is ...
An ordinary future
The dystopian genre is starting to be stomach-churning. It's always the same story. Human ambition generates a virological, quantum, nuclear, ...
Against the perversion of the science evaluation system
It is well known that research is the main engine of economic and social progress; but it must work correctly ...
The art of folding maps
A map folded like a paper airplane.Alamy Stock PhotoIf we multiply the sides of the DIN A0 sheet, the origin ...
Synchronization between the body’s circadian clocks can prevent aging
Human life is governed by a circadian rhythm (around 24 hours) that is controlled by a tiny biological clock located ...
When Georges Perec messed around with the scientific archives
If there has been a playful writer, it, without a doubt, has been Georges Perec. These days a book has ...
Genetic cause of the most common brain malformation found
After almost a decade of work and an almost detective search for cases around the world, an international consortium of ...
‘Rakus’, the first orangutan who has been seen healing a wound with a medicinal plant
The Fibraurea tinctoria It is a climbing plant found in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Many of the local communities ...
Carmen Estrada, neuroscientist: “Science and God cannot coexist”
For most of her career, physiologist Carmen Estrada (Seville, 74 years old) dedicated herself to scientific research, specializing in the ...
