Education, resources and support for Virtual Workers
Education, resources and support for Virtual Workers
More than 50 years ago, the famous Kenyan-British anthropologist Louis Leakey helped revolutionize the field of primatology when he sent three young biologists to study three of the four species of great apes that exist in the jungles of Africa…
The realities, ethical dilemmas and medical promises of an emerging field of research. The news about stem cell treatments never ceases to surprise. Without a doubt, these generic cells, capable of generating all the different types of cells that exist…
If the Fourth World War will be fought with stones and sticks, the third will surely use viruses and bacteria. What happened on April 2, 1979 in Sverdlovsk, in the former Soviet Union, was nothing more than proof of something…
The Huygens probe is the first spacecraft to land on an object in the outer Solar System. Imagine that you win a prize in a supermarket raffle that consists of everything you manage to put in a cart in five…
This is your last chance, they promised that they would give you a job today and that they would not ask questions. While you wait, you try to convince yourself that this time they will not discover you and you…
It is said that the human brain is capable of having more ideas than the number of atoms in the Universe. True or not, the fact is that this organ is astonishingly complex and undergoes many changes throughout life. A…
Techniques for obtaining images of the inside of the living human body, which together are called medical imaging, have made it possible to significantly improve the diagnosis of many diseases. They have also contributed to the knowledge of the body…
Earthquakes are a natural phenomenon. When they cause serious damage to us we talk about disasters. Although the natural phenomenon is not yet predictable, disasters can be prevented. Science gives us the knowledge to do it. “Nature has no say,”…
Leaving the confines of the Earth has been a spectacular feat for hundreds of astronauts, men and women who have managed to overcome physiological and psychological imbalances to adapt to a zero gravity environment. Since the 1980s, several Russian astronauts…
The unusual optical properties of metamaterials will make it possible to manufacture objects that neither absorb nor reflect light. Such objects, and their contents, would be invisible for all practical purposes. Harry Potter fans know it very well: the invisibility…