Science
What is Amazon Web Services?
The cloud service provider fell this Monday, October 20. Thousands of platforms have been cancelled worldwide, but... what is Amazon Web Services and why is it so important on the Internet?
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing metallic organic structures
The winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry have created molecular structures with wide spaces through which gases and other chemicals flow. These metallic organic structures can be used to extract water from desert air, absorb carbon dioxide, collect toxic gases or catalyze chemical reactions.
New drugs have appeared in recent years that have radically changed the treatment of obesity
They were actually created to combat diabetes, but they have also proved effective in losing weight, but how do they work and in what cases should they be taken?
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Paracetamol, pregnancy and autism risk: many studies refute this correlation
Scientists say paracetamol is better than any other alternative to relieving the pain of pregnant women. They also warn of the risk of stigmatizing families with autistic children, because the belief that it may be caused by them may spread.
More than 43,300 people live with Alzheimer's in the Basque Country: a great challenge for which prevention is basic
According to experts, more than 120,000 people could be affected by 2050. The associations of family members and caregivers have stressed the importance of recognizing the rights of caregivers, and have highlighted this work, which is often invisible.
Multiverse Computing will increase its workforce by 30% in San Sebastian
The Donostiarra company specializing in quantum software and artificial intelligence plans to hire 60 people next year. The company started in 2019 with four employees and will soon reach 260.
Found a prehistoric site with cave paintings in Gamiz-Fika
According to the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, it was discovered by Juan Carlos López Quintana and Juan Carlos Izagirre as part of an intervention programme for the recovery of the environment of the San Pedro de Atxispe hermitage on 26 June 2025. The experts who have investigated the return are the first mixed hypogeum documented in the Cantabrian area.
A CIC bioGUNE study has found a new way to treat rare and aggressive liver cancer
The lehendakari has stressed that the Basque Country and the Canary Islands have the opportunity to strengthen cooperation
The President, Imanol Pradales, has stressed the need to "deepen policy based on dialogue, negotiation and agreements" during his working trip to the Canary Islands. In this regard, he has said that there is an "opportunity to take a leap" in science, in the sustainable blue economy or in migration.
NASA has discovered possible signs of life from the past on Mars
To determine whether the planet ever had life, it will be essential that the samples collected by the Perseverance rover be brought to Earth and examined in detail.
The Government will distribute EUR 50 million in the university research promotion programme for the period 2026-2029
They found the body of a scientist who disappeared 66 years ago in Antarctica
They found traces of cannibalism in Atapuerca
A group of researchers have foundanother new case of cannibalism in the cave of El Mirador, at the site of Atapuerca (Burgos) . The event was said to have occurred\u00A0 5,700 years ago (late Neolithic) as a result of local conflicts, without detecting any signs related to ceremonies or rituals.
Lithium could be crucial to the emergence of Alzheimer's and treatment for the disease
Harvard researchers have found that loss of lithium in the brain accelerates memory impairment by contributing to the disease. The work, published in Nature magazine and done in 10 years, shows for the first time that lithium is produced naturally in the brain and protects it from neurodegeneration.
Xabier Murelaga, UPV-EHU geologist: "More than 80% of global earthquakes occur in the Pacific Fire Ring."
The director of the UPV/EHU Geology Department has explained that the area where the earthquake occurred this Wednesday, the Kamchatka peninsula, is part of the Pacific Fire Ring, where in 2011 the earthquake that damaged the Japanese coast and caused the Fukushima nuclear accident also occurred.
They found traces of a wall during the rehabilitation of the Vitoria-Gasteiz Main Theatre, under the seat yard
Archaeologists will produce a report analysing the discovery, and in the meantime, work will continue normally in the rest of the theater.