They live at temperatures of -13 ° C, in water with high concentrations of salt, without light or oxygen. These super organisms are bacteria, and have been discovered by a team of scientists from the Desert Research Institute in Nevada (USA) under the ice of a lake in Antarctica. Their study offers clues about the way of life that the hypothetical inhabitants of other planets with similar environmental conditions would have.
The remains of an ampelosaurus found in 2007 in the Lo Hueco site (Cuenca) have allowed the 3D reconstruction of the animal's brain, which has turned out to be extraordinarily small, according to an investigation in which the Higher Council for Scientific Research has participated (CSIC) and published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Spanish and American researchers have discovered a new species of mygalomorphic spider, a relative of today's tarantulas, which lived in northern Italy about 215 million years ago, when the first dinosaurs inhabited this area. They have named it Friularachne rigoi, and it is one of the few spiders known from the Triassic in the world.
On January 14, 2013, it was eight years since ESA's Huygens exploration probe landed on Titan, the largest of Saturn's satellites. It was the first landing of a body in the outer Solar System and now, thanks to the data sent by the probe, we have been able to recreate what these moments were like. We show them to you in a video.
A study carried out with 152 veterans of the Vietnam War who suffered brain damage has created the first map of emotional intelligence, that is, the ability to process emotional information and move through the emotional world. It is published in the latest issue of the journal Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience.
The Belgian Ingrid Daubechies and the American David Mumford have just been awarded the Frontiers of Knowledge award given by the BBVA Foundation in the Basic Sciences category. The jury has awarded them this prestigious award for "their work in mathematical theory, which has had a great influence in various fields of application, from data compression to pattern recognition," according to the minutes.
The Super Scholar organization has developed a ranking of the ten smartest people alive in the world. In it appears Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist, with an IQ of 160, 14 awards and 70 years of age, who according to the authors of the list, with his 7 books "has made us mere mortals understand the universe."
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.
