A study published in the journal Nature analyzes the potential use of medicinal plants by African elephants in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya. The research compiles observations on the selective consumption of certain natural resources and examines their possible relationship with self-medication behaviors. The research combines the study of animal behavior with the traditional...
A medical team at Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid has developed an experimental technique aimed at enabling the recipient’s body to tolerate a transplanted organ as if it were its own. The procedure, based on a “double graft”, combines organ transplantation with hematopoietic stem cells from the same donor, which undergo a purification process...
A team of palaeontologists from the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis has identified remains belonging to a Diplodocus at the La Tejería fossil site in El Castellar, Teruel. The dinosaur lived around 150 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic. The discovery, published in the scientific journal Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, is exceptional because...
Tim Andrews, 66, received a transplant of a genetically modified porcine kidney in January 2025. The procedure was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and Andrews lived with the kidney for 271 days. During that period, he was able to stop dialysis, which had kept him alive until then. In a study published earlier...
Stopping bleeding as quickly as possible can be crucial in an emergency, surgery, or accident. However, it's not always easy, especially when wounds are deep, irregular, or difficult to cover with standard materials. A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ( KAIST ) has developed a new powdered material that...
A study conducted by Yale University and published in the journal Cell has revealed that the heart possesses its own nervous system that is far more complex and influential than previously believed. Although the existence of the intrinsic cardiac nervous system (ICNS) has been known for years, its study has been limited because these neurons...
Brain surgery requires an exceptional level of precision. However, during an operation, the brain can shift slightly, causing the tumor to move from the position shown in the medical images taken before surgery. This phenomenon is one of the main challenges faced by neurosurgical teams. To help overcome this issue, Miguel Hernández University (UMH) is...
On the evening of Wednesday, August 12, 2026, Spain will experience a historic milestone: the first total solar eclipse visible from the Iberian Peninsula in over a century. Occurring in the middle of summer, the chances of enjoying clear skies are very high, making the country the epicenter of world astronomy. The path of totality...
Research into new materials continues to offer innovative solutions to some of the major energy challenges of the 21st century. One example is the work developed by a research team at Northwestern University (USA), which has designed a liquid material capable of capturing energy from different sources, storing it for long periods, and releasing it...
CSIC Recovers the Valuable Unpublished Archive of Mathematician Julio Rey Pastor The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has received a valuable and previously unpublished historical treasure consisting of 131 documents and objects belonging to the Spanish mathematician Julio Rey Pastor (1888–1962). The legacy, carefully preserved by his family and sent from Argentina by his...
