Technology

Do you want to travel to Russia but are you afraid of not understanding even dad? Are you fascinated by Japanese culture but can't learn its language? Google has just announced the new Google Translate, with which you can translate from posters to your own voice between different languages.

The FOTCIENCIA photography contest, promoted by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), brings science closer to us one more year through a very artistic vision of scientific research. A total of 770 photographs have participated in this contest. These are the winning photos. The best scientific photographs of 2014.

Thanks to the gravitational force, and the effort we make to counteract its "pull", our bones and muscles are strengthened. Therefore, prolonged stays in space, with minimal gravity, ends up taking its toll.

Every time you click on Facebook to “like” a publication, content or image, you are talking about yourself, giving details about your personality. This is the main conclusion of a recent study developed by researchers at the Psychometrics Center of the University of Cambridge (UK) and the department of Computer Science at Stanford University (USA).

Apparently the legendary Scottish Loch Ness monster has come up with a real competitor. A team of paleontologists led by the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) has discovered on the Isle of Skye, the fossil fragments of a new species of marine reptile from the Jurassic era. These new giant dolphin-like creatures would have lived in the warm, shallow seas of Scotland about 170 million years ago. The find has been published in the Scottish Journal of Geology.

The construction of the LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) or Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, will finally see the light after decades of planning and fundraising. The new telescope, with both public and private funding (Bill Gates contributed $ 10 million to the project and Charles Simonyi - a former Microsoft executive and well-known philanthropist - $ 20 million), will be made up of scientists from the University of Washington (USA). .UU.) And other institutions.

A scientific study, carried out by a team of experts from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, has determined that being born at a time of low solar activity is equivalent to a greater probability of living longer (up to five more years on average); on the contrary, being born in a highly active solar cycle reduces our life expectancy. The study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

One cup of magnesium, 1 cup of silicon, 2 cups of iron, 2 cups of oxygen, 1/2 teaspoon of aluminum, 1/2 teaspoon of nickel, 1/2 teaspoon of calcium, 1/4 teaspoon of sulfur and a trickle of water from a comet or asteroid.