Spending a day on the Moon means enduring temperatures close to 100 degrees. The twilight is not a consolation for crew and vehicles, since when you turn your back to the Sun, the surface of the satellite reaches -150 degrees.
As every year the largest search engine in the world has released, shortly after 2013, its particular Zeitgeist. Or what is the same, a series of lists that show the most searched words in different parts of the world and those that have had the highest search growth this year. Unexpected events such as the death of Paul Walker or Álvaro Buló and television programs such as Big Brother 14, Gandía Shore or Eurovision 2013 have been some of the most searched words this year.
Our hands and wrists are extremely complex. Dozens of tiny bones, tendons, and muscles allow us to hit, grab, smash, twist, and make hundreds of different movements. Now, a metacarpal bone found in Kaitio, Kenya, dating back about 1.42 million years ago has provided new clues about how humans came to have such a complex and evolved structure.
Since the concept of 'brain plasticity' made its way into the study of the nervous system, many scientific works have been carried out to find out the type of activities that are capable of producing the change in the structure of our brain or in its shape. According to statistics, 40% of Spaniards have played a video game in the last year.
The hadrosaur, commonly known as the “duck-billed dinosaur,” dominated the late Cretaceous landscapes 65 million years ago. Its characteristic flattened snout gives it a not fearsome appearance ideal for starring in children's films.
If you like meteor showers and make wishes every time you see one, the night of December 13-14 is your day in 2013. The last meteor shower of the year, that of the Geminids will reach its peak of "fall" of meteors that night around 06:45 in the morning, although the show will be tarnished by the Moon that will be in one of its most luminous phases.
A study recently published in the journal Science in which scientists from the CSIC have participated has just found the first evidence of a molecule based on argon, a noble gas, in space. The finding has been documented exactly in the Crab Nebula, in the constellation of Taurus, about 6,500 light years from Earth.
ESA's and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is not stopping to bear scientific fruit. As they have just reported, the latest of their findings has been the discovery of eruptions of water vapor from the surface of Europa, one of the main moons of Jupiter that is covered by a thick layer of ice.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
