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The day Google started to get worse: ‘We are getting too close to money’

Back in 2019, a group of company executives began discussing how to get users to do more queries. Since then, advertising revenue has been prioritized, according to critics

05/05/2024

Light pollution is a risk factor for various illnesses: ‘We’re facing a global threat’

Exposure to exterior nighttime illumination affects our biological clock and sleep quality, and a recent study links it to an elevated chance of having a stroke

04/05/2024

NASA’s 36-pixel sensor will revolutionize the study of outer space with X-rays

In a world such as ours, where some carry around camaras of up to 200 million pixels in their pockets, it’s a bit surprising that a recently launched outer space telescope doesn’t even remotely approach that metric.

03/05/2024

How gender shapes health: Women live longer but with poorer quality of life

Men experience a greater degree of health loss and have a higher burden of diseases that lead to premature death, but women suffer more pathologies such as lower back pain, depression, and anxiety, according to new research

03/05/2024

ChatGPT could be a search engine soon, and that would be a problem for Google

For a long time, Google has been the dominant company in search engines, handling almost all search queries worldwide. Recently, however, it has been seriously challenged by Microsoft’s Bing, which has received a boost from ChatGPT.

03/05/2024

Researchers discover the genetic cause of the most common brain malformation

An international collaboration has identified a mutation that multiplies the risk of suffering from spina bifida, which causes lifelong disability, and may also be related to schizophrenia and heart disease

03/05/2024

Carmen Estrada, neuroscientist: ‘Science and God cannot coexist’

In ‘The Inheritance of Eve,’ the Spanish researcher and classical philologist claims the biblical character as a symbol of science, curiosity, and the transmission of knowledge

02/05/2024

Digital body language: How non-verbal communication works on social media

In the past, we examined people’s looks or subtle movements. But now, on Instagram or WhatsApp, we place value on the frequency of interactions, the use of emojis, or the speed of a response

02/05/2024

An experimental vaccine increases survival rates by up to 50% in four people with highly-aggressive brain cancer

Spanish biochemist Héctor Méndez and his colleagues from the University of Florida have achieved ‘promising’ results in their initial human trial

02/05/2024

Why does the night exist?

The concept of day and night on Earth is very different from that of other worlds, where a day can last longer than a year or areas of a planet can experience eternal night

01/05/2024

Diabetes drugs test a new side effect: slowing down symptoms of Parkinson’s

A clinical trial shows the neuroprotective effect of lixisenatide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist. Its use during a year prevented patients from getting worse, in what has been described as limited but promising benefits

01/05/2024