We’ve been telling ourselves for 100 years that breakfast is the “most important meal of the day.” The problem is that it is not true

They’ve been hammering us with that slogan for so long that it should be true. That is, if from different speakers they proclaim that under no circumstances should we skip breakfast, it will be because it is lunch. most important of the day. But how we already pointed herethe studies on which they have relied … Read more

China has been building the Great Green Wall for 50 years. What I had not planned was to alter the rains

The China’s forests are growing. It has nothing to do with a natural process, but with a meticulously followed strategy to contain the desert expansion and reforest the country with billions of trees. The consequence of this reforestation is not limited to having more trees and two studies have just shown the counterpart of massive … Read more

30 years ago a young Chinese man set up an ice cream stand. Now he leads an emporium with more stores than McDonald’s

It’s hard to believe in a world dominated by big brands and multinationals, but there is a hospitality chain with more stores than McDonald’s and Starbucks that you’ve probably never heard of. His name is Mixue (Mìxuě Bīngchéng) was founded in the late 90s by a university student from Zhenghou, China, and today it is … Read more

20 years after Dolly we still haven’t cloned humans, but stopping aging is feasible: Crossover 1×32

In the summer of 1996, a Scottish laboratory made a breakthrough that would forever alter our understanding of genetics and ignite intense debates about the ethics and the possibilities of cloning. That day Dolly was bornthe first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell. This milestone, achieved by researchers at the Roslin Institute, opened a … Read more

For years, TV ads have been louder without violating any laws. Spain has decided that this is over

A common experience among millions of viewers: you are watching your favorite series at a comfortable volume when an advertising block bursts in, forcing you to rush headlong towards the remote control. This calculated shock could have its days numbered in Spain thanks to quantifiable technical criteria to monitor the sound level of advertisements. The … Read more

We thought we “discovered” fire 50,000 years ago. We didn’t know how wrong we were.

For decades paleontology has maintained a clear distinction in history: it is one thing to use fire and quite another to create it at will. Something that seems very silly, but is essential since until now the evidence we had on the table pointed to the ability to light a bonfire from scratch They dated … Read more

We have been fascinated for years by the geniuses who come up with revolutionary innovations out of thin air. It’s always been smoke

We live in times in which innovation, creative genius and the search for the next technological revolution are everything. We all want to know who it is the next Mark Zuckerberg, the next Steve Jobs either the next Albert Einstein. So much so that we project our way of looking at the world onto the … Read more

Elon Musk has been refusing to take SpaceX public for 20 years. His new obsession has changed his mind

If there is something that Elon Musk has been repeating since before Starship was called Starship, it is that SpaceX would not go public until the gigantic Martian rocket was flying regularly. The excuse was that Wall Street likes short-term profitability plans more than multi-generational plans to colonize Mars. But the script has changed: SpaceX … Read more

Jeff Bezos fired the CEO of Blue Origin two years ago. In retrospect, it was the best decision he could have made.

The most surprising fact about Blue Origin is that it was founded before SpaceX. Obsessed with space since childhood, Jeff Bezos saw the potential the aerospace industry would have and began selling thousands of Amazon shares to build a rocket company. He founded Blue Origin in 2000, when his net worth was around $6.1 billion. … Read more

Australia has decided to ban social media for those under 16 years of age. The mystery is how they are going to achieve it

December 10 was the date marked on the Australian calendar for prohibit social networks for minors under 16 years of age. Australia becomes the first country to implement a measure of this type, although there are others that also want to do it like Denmark or France. The ban is already in force, however there … Read more

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