30 tons of illegally extracted timber in the Amazon
Thirty tons of wood were seized by the Military Forces in two collection centers in the village of La Pizarra, in the municipality of Puerto Leguízamo. The 106 cubic meters of this natural resource...
The first cells were based on a metallic biomolecule factory
The metabolic processes of life have a close relationship with inorganic chemistry: to obtain the metabolic path that gives them the components with which they were built, the first organisms...
How to Choose Exercise Equipment, According to Science
How To Choose The Right Exercise Equipment Knowing how to pick the right exercise equipment will not only save you time, money and, energy, it will also ensure you get the best possible results from...
Laundry throws million microplastics in the environment
A study by the University of Plymouth examined the mass, abundance and size of the fibers present in the effluent waste after washing synthetic fabrics at normal temperatures of 30 and 40 degrees...
Global campaign to eradicate dental mercury
A group of more than 25 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) launched a global campaign to eradicate the use of mercury in dentistry, a widespread practice that threatens health and the...
The embryo of a two-headed shark appears in a laboratory in Málaga
From 2005 to 2011, a group of scientists from the University of Malaga gathered embryos obtained from gravid female shark had been caught by fishing vessels in the Alboran Sea and the Gulf of Vera....
The three-toed sloths are the slowest mammals on the planet
The three-toed sloths Bradypus variegatus are the slowest mammals on the planet; that is the conclusion which a group of scientists who spent 15 years studying these animals has come up to. When it...
Mexican innovator developed a machine that can “undo” toner paper sheets
Current printers are getting “smarter”: wireless, scanner and fax integrated, able to connect to email, print from the cloud and receive orders from a tablet or phone. What they can not...
