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What we actually see – and don’t see – tells us a lot about consciousness

Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Author: Henry Taylor, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham What can you see right now? This might seem like a silly question, but what enters your consciousness is not the […]

100-meter underground wireless communication

Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 2 min Home Korean researchers have confirmed that underground wireless communication is possible, moving beyond the terrestrial wireless communication they have primarily focused on until now. This opened up a new wireless channel for confirming […]

A mini-philosophy of technology (1): Ortega vs Heidegger

Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 8 min Home One century ago, when philosophers talked about technology, they’re not usually discussing the latest app or whether artificial intelligence will take our jobs. They were asking bigger questions: What does technology do […]

Chiral altermagnets and the unexpected origins of spin currents

Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home Every time a computer processes information, electrons shuttle through circuits carrying electric charge, and much of the energy they carry is wasted as heat. Spintronics proposes a different approach: instead of relying […]

Microbes in Antarctica survive the freezing and dark winter by living on air

Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Author: Ry Holland, Research Fellow in Microbial Ecology, Monash University Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the Sun sets in April and does […]

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Stromal senescence drives therapy resistance in T-ALL

Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home Author: Marta Irigoyen is a postdoctoral researcher at CIC bioGUNE T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) is a precursor T cell lymphoma. T-LBL represents the second most common subtype of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in both […]

Why we shouldn’t abandon handwriting at school

Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Author: Atheena Johnson, Docteure en linguistique appliquée, Université Paris Nanterre Over the decades, technological devices have been gradually integrated into language learning, as is recently the case with generative artificial intelligence (AI) […]

Zombosomes: The rise of astrocytic couriers in the propagation of brain disease

Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 7 min Home Author: José R. Pineda earned his Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona in 2006. Since 2007, he has conducted research at Institut Curie and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission […]

12 reasons why plastic recycling is failing so badly

Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Author: Jordi Diaz Marcos, CCiTUB , Universitat de Barcelona As good citizens, we diligently fill the recycling bins provided by our local authorities with all manner of plastic trays, boxes, bottles and […]

Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Author: Steven Gillespie, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool Psychopaths might account for only about 1% of the general population, but they account for a disproportionate share of violent crime […]

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Sir Humphry Davy, in a discourse delivered at the Royal Society in 1825 said:

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and of no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown; and in philosophy, the sentiment of the Macedonian hero can never apply, — there are always new worlds to conquer.

Every time we make a new scientific discovery we sense where the limit of knowledge is, we feel where ignorance begins. Science is, for certain, what we think we know, but more precisely, it is being aware of the boundaries of the unknown.

In this blog we try to translate cutting edge scientific research into an educated lay-person language; consequently, as we do this, we will be Mapping Ignorance. Our goal is very simple: to spread both the latest developments in science and technology and a scientific worldview facilitating the access to it. To achieve this Mapping Ignorance is written by specialists in each field of expertise coordinated by a dedicated editor; the aim of them all is to make sometimes abstruse but otherwise wonderful scientific and technical information enjoyable by the interested general reader.

Mapping Ignorance is an initiative of the Chair of Scientific Culture of the University of the Basque Country under the Project Campus of International Excellence – Euskampus.