Science
When The Brain Sleeps
Marta Consuegra
Advances in neuroscience have improved our understanding of sleep and its importance for physical and mental functioning.
Science
Anil Seth: “Reality is a controlled hallucination”
Sònia Hernández
A conversation with the neuroscientist about the nature of consciousness, how it can be studied and the implications of understanding it.
Science
What if Your Mood Depends on the Bacteria in Your Gut?
Cristina Sáez
The gut microbiota plays a key role in this continuous dialogue between the gut and the brain.
Planet
Science
The space of possible minds
Philip Ball
If our experience is limited to our own bodies, how can we think about non-human minds?
Science
Dossier
The Mysteries of the Mind
We delve into the secrets of the human brain and those of other minds: artificial, animal and collective intelligences.
Planet
Science
What insects think about
Javier A. Canteros
Have we been dismissive in our reckoning of insect intelligence? Studies of their cognitive abilities reveal a surprising mind.
Science
Are Viruses Alive?
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros | Serafín Álvarez
A conversation between two artists to explore the limits of language and the taxonomies of life.
Science
The cosmos on a dust particle
César Reyes Nájera | Ethel Baraona Pohl
Most of everything that makes up the universe is unknown to us. Can we speculate about what human perception of dark matter would be like?
Science
Tentacular brains, the sadness of a ficus and the limits of anthropocentrism
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
How can we understand the idea of intelligence in a plant or an octopus by means of our human consciousness?
Education
Science
A short Big History of almost everything
Cristina Sáez
Big History is an attempt to explain, in a unified way, the history of the cosmos, the Earth, life and humanity based on science and the scientific method.
Science
Schrödinger’s Cat Visits Spain
Enric Pérez Canals
About when Erwin Schrödinger published an article and taught two lectures in Spain and about the meaning of the question and the metaphor in popular science.
