We know more than Mars than the seabed. An expert helps us to understand why it is still an enigma and what mysteries keep

What if we told you that there is such a tiny creature that it can hunt generating a bubble at more than 100 km/h, with a temperature similar to the sun? What if the orcs were smarter than we believe, even capable of having bait traps or hunting the very blue whale? The bottom of … Read more

Exactly 100 years ago we began to understand how the world works. Quantum physics has radically changed our lives

Well, not exactly 100 years ago. 100 years ago and one day. On July 9, 1925, German physicist Werner Heisenberg sent a letter to his friend Wolfgang Pauli, who at that time was already a very renowned theoretical physicist of Austrian origin. Heisenberg had been engaged for several months in the development of an idea … Read more

Something is stealing our dream and they are not just the screens. A neurologist helps us understand what is really happening

We sleep, we dream, we forget. But do we really know what happens while we sleep? Sleep paralysis, déjà vusawakening in the early morning or that exhaustion that appears even after Sleep eight hours. In this new section of Xataka we enter all those questions that we have ever asked ourselves and that until now … Read more

It affects few people, but Williams syndrome can help us understand new details about human evolution

Williams syndrome is a condition with its own “personality.” And it is not quite a way of speaking, some call it “personality of the Williams syndrome”And it is one of the features that usually characterize people with this uncommon condition. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Williams syndrome. The origin of this can be … Read more

We increasingly understand the relationship between intestinal flora and sleep quality

Many researchers ago They have been pointing That the intestine is not limited only to digesting food. It has neurons, produces substances that the brain also uses to communicate and, most curious, seems to be in direct contact with it. Hence some call it “The second brain”And maybe it does not sound so exaggerated if … Read more

Manufacturers have drunk attendee cars for our safety. We do not use them and (worse) we don’t understand them either

“We know that many people deactivate the lane maintenance assistant. Why should we sell it?” With these words, Denis Le Vot, CEO of Dacia, attacked the European Union and his commitment to adas systems for driving in 2022. What defended the head of the company is that most users They deactivate these aid Security and … Read more

Satellite images have revealed what happened to one of Russia’s biggest arsenals. Now we understand Moscow’s silence

On April 22 the satellites began to point out A point on the planeta change only perceptible through the images from space offered a first track of what was happening about 60 kilometers from Moscow. Despite the weather conditions of that day and the low resolution of the optical data captured by the Sentinel-2 satellite … Read more

When reality overwhelms, we seek to understand it in fiction

The first thing that many Spaniards did as they recovered the electric current was to look for series and films related to blackouts. If possible, of Spanish or European nationality. In addition to robbing us in An extraordinary phenomenon That has just happened, there is a psychological explanation for this act: fiction comforts us and … Read more

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