Technology

A team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has identified the mechanism that releases the particular wet smell that we notice when it rains. The finding has been published in the journal Nature Communications.

Billions of years from now, the Sun will exhaust its nuclear fuel, expand into a red giant, and expel much of its mass.

The red planet has scientists baffled by a strange phenomenon to which we cannot yet give an answer. It all started in 2012 when a group of amateur astronomers managed with their telescopes and high-resolution cameras, to capture some images with strange plumes of clouds emerging at the edge of the disk of Mars. Since then, the appearance of these huge clouds at sunrise on Mars remains a mystery.

Scientists have been considering different possibilities to explain the spark that gave rise to life on our planet, such as the impact of lightning or the activity of underwater volcanoes.

The science fiction film "Interstellar" by director Christopher Nolan has managed to transfer fiction to scientific reality, since, as published by the team of experts that includes physicist Kip Thorne, from the California Institute of Technology (USA) in the magazine Classical and Quantum Gravity from IOP Publishing, the visual effects team has been so precise and realistic that they have explained to scientists how they made the images, providing the most compelling proof of what a black hole or hole would look like in reality. worm.

Two different teams of German astronomers (from the Center for Astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg) have certified the finding of a rather particular exoplanet. It has been baptized as Kepler-432b and it is one of the densest and most massive planets known today. The research results have been published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

The fact that when we get home from work and our dog comes to greet us or not, it already has a scientific explanation. For the first time, an experiment with dogs has shown that dogs are able to differentiate between the different emotional expressions of the human face, being able to easily discriminate between angry and happy faces. The research, carried out by the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna (Austria), has been published in the journal Current Biology.

A curious research conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) has discovered that we may not take one factor into account when we forget about names: music.