La radiación al servicio de la vida

"The Higgs boson ... is the key to understanding why mass exists and how atoms are possible. After billions of dollars and decades of effort by more than six thousand researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--a doorway is opening into the mind-boggling world of dark matter and beyond. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll explains both the importance of the Higgs boson and the ultimately human story behind the greatest scientific achievement of our time"--Publisher.

progress and happiness - however these terms may be understood in detail - as a significant and constitutive element of scientific inquiry. In this sense the question of the way in which sport really benefits people and contributes to their happiness, and under which individual and social conditions, is a scientific question. It assumes special significance when the fact is taken into account that in the field of sport science a general scepticism is shown towards those dogmas and pedagogical theses which take such an interpretation for granted in the absence of a firm empirical foundation...

¿Qué nos distingue de los animales? ¿Para qué nos sirven las emociones? ¿Por qué somos más inteligentes que los chimpancés? ¿Por qué las personas pensamos diferente? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que trata de responder "La familia hormiga". Un libro imprescindible para todas aquellas personas apasionadas por el conocimiento científico, que disfrutaron con la lectura de "Introducción a la ciencia" de Isaac Asimov o "Historia del tiempo" de Stephen Hawking. Destinado a lectores con inquietud por conocer de una manera más coloquial los avances alcanzados por la psicología...

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...