Technology

In view of the latest research in psychology, we should update the old saying that the eyes are the reflection of the soul and replace “eyes” with “Facebook states”.

The International Space Station (the ISS) has been orbiting the Earth for more than 15 years with its various modules and gigantic solar panels. It is the only place outside the Earth where human beings have life constantly thanks to the shifts of astronauts and missions sent by the different space agencies.

A group of paleontologists from the University of Oviedo has found in an Asturian site the fossil remains of a one-year-old mammoth that inhabited the Earth about 35,000 years ago.

The team of researchers in charge of the "Mars Science Laboratory" mission publishes an important discovery today in the journal Nature. The Martian rover Curiosity has found sedimentary rocks in the vicinity of Gale Crater that suggest the existence of a freshwater lake 3.6 billion years ago.

The practice of meditation, apart from the psychological benefit, causes a feeling of physical relaxation in our body. A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madisonha (USA) with the collaboration of a Spanish and French center has shown indications that the effects of this state of mental abstraction could go beyond muscle distension, by generating an alteration in the expression of our genes.

Old age is the last stage of human life, in which the physical and psychological deterioration associated with cell death is clearly experienced. This is not innate to the entire animal kingdom, since some species do not suffer any decline with age.

Today a historical paleontological finding is published in the journal Nature. Collaboration between German and Spanish researchers has led to the sequencing of the oldest human genome found to date, dating back 400,000 years.

Two teams of scientists have detected, through data collected by the Hubble telescope, the presence of water in the atmosphere of five planets belonging to other star systems.