Por años, la batería de litio-aire ha sido descrita como la batería "del futuro" por su altísima densidad energética, pero diversos obstáculos han complicado su desarrollo. Científicos británicos han creado una versión que podría ser el gra ...

No one talks anymore.

France says it is ready to pull out of talks over the controversial Transatlantic free-trade agreement between the EU and the US, because the secretive negotiations were favouring American interests over French ones.

Use-by and best-before dates have been endowed with an authority they do not deserve, and allow food manufacturers and supermarkets to play around with the concepts of freshness and safety

Hay 3 mentiras que como sociedad hemos aceptado como ciertas sin siquiera cuestionarlas, y que impiden nuestro progreso. El editor de El Definido, Marco Canepa, demuestra con casos reales que nos estamos engañando y que otra realidad es posible.

We've had a thread about avatars, the obvious next step seems to be to ask about usernames. The explanation behind mine isn't very exciting - I use a totally new name for every profile I create and inspiration can be difficult to come by, in this case I happened to be listening to Nirvana when creating my Snapzu account.

I'm sure there's going to be some much more interesting explanations for some of yours!

Grandes plataformas de BitTorrent, webs que publican películas de alta calidad o aplicaciones como PopCorn Time están desapareciendo de internet.

Banks and corporations are being liberated from the rule of law, and are ripping the world apart.

Why are so many of us leaving Britain? Is it the crap weather? The lack of affordable housing? The far-reaching ramifications of colonialism smoothing our way as we migrate around the world? A combination of the above? Whatever the reason, according ...

New finding is clear example in humans of the theory of epigenetic inheritance: the idea that environmental factors can affect the genes of your children

Mi tío abuelo murió joven. Era bombero y a los treinta y tres años –la edad de Cristo, como siempre recordaba mi abuela– salió por la puerta de casa y ya no

Remember back when you were a kid? You would just do things. You never thought to yourself, "What are the relative merits of learning baseball versus football?" You just ran around the playground and played baseball and football. You built ...

Compuesto en un 99,99% de aire, se trata de un microtejido que simula la estructura porosa de los huesos humanos y que, además de ser ultraliviano, es extraordinariamente resistente. Se espera que revolucione la industria aeroespacial, entre otras.

An explosion occurred overnight at a nuclear power plant in Doel, northern Belgium, local media reported, adding that the blast caused a fire. The exact damage from the incident remains unknown.

The Government’s plan to end on-shore wind subsidies next year was in doubt after it was defeated in the House of Lords, in a move that could spark further hostilities between David Cameron and peers. The Lords backed a Labour amendment deleting a cl ...

Fascinating new lines of research suggest that we are good people, tolerating bad things.

The world’s richest man, Bill Gates, has said that the private sector is too selfish and inefficient to produce effective energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

UK Home Secretary Theresa May expected to announce plans to give security services powers to view web browsing history of everyone in the country