In any microbiology laboratory in the world we can find small transparent circular boxes made up of two pieces known as Petri dishes. Its name comes from a scientist who, thanks to this great idea, has allowed thousands of scientists to grow fungi, bacteria and all kinds of microorganisms under controlled conditions.
A score of test tubes with samples of lunar dust brought from the terrestrial satellite on the Apollo 11 spacecraft have been found in an old warehouse in California, United States, after 43 years unaccounted for. They were labeled and dated July 24, 1970.
The complete and well-preserved skeleton of a new feathered dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic changes some previous ideas about the origin and evolution of birds. 'Aurornis xui' –from Latin 'Aurora' and the term 'Ornis', which means bird of dawn - is the name with which they have baptized the oldest avialan dinosaur found to date.
Physicists Peter Higgs (United Kingdom) and François Englert (Belgium), together with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), have been awarded today the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research.
What does it depend on a soccer player to score a goal? In addition to your own abilities, there are other external factors such as the position in which you play or the team to which you belong that determine this fact. Because of this, players with better scoring qualities may end up scoring fewer goals than others with lower performance, and vice versa. With this idea in mind, a team of researchers from the Universities of Granada and Jaén has developed a model based on Bayesian statistics that allows predicting the goals that a soccer player will score based on their individual qualities.
Using the trending topics or most popular Twitter topics to spread "junk" content (spam) has become a fairly common practice. To solve this, UNED researchers have developed a statistical method that allows detecting junk content on this well-known microblogging platform. To demonstrate their effectiveness, they have analyzed 20 million messages, 34,000 trending topics and six million web addresses.
A Spanish railway engineer from Talgo has received in Amsterdam the European Inventor Award, 2013 edition, awarded by the European Patent Office (EPO) for a wheel suspension system that considerably improves travel on high-speed trains. José Luis López Gómez is the first winner of the Popular Award, a new category presented in 2013. Unlike the awards of the other 5 categories, the winner was not voted by an international jury, but by the public, who could choose their Favorite inventor among 15 finalists for the award.
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.
