News of science

Brazil trans twins undergo gender confirmation surgery together

24-02-2021 11:14 Growing up as identical twins, Mayla and Sofia always did everything together, and their decision to undergo sex reassignment surgery is no exception. Now, they have made the transition they long dreamed of together, in what their doctor calls a first.

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists reveal impact of climate change on Antarctic phytoplankton

18-02-2021 23:52 Argentine scientists reveal that rising temperatures and diminished salinity have altered phytoplankton in the Antarctic.

LIFE ON MARS?

Touchdown: NASA's Perseverance rover ready to search for life on Mars

18-02-2021 23:22 After seven months in space, NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars, ready to embark on its mission to search for signs of past life.

DINO DISCOVERY

New Patagonian dinosaur may be largest yet: scientists

21-01-2021 12:11 Scientists have unearthed massive, 98-million-year-old fossils in southwest Argentina they say may have belonged to the largest dinosaur ever discovered.

Coronavirus Pandemic

Covid patient who took chlorine dioxide dies in hospital

15-01-2021 18:25 Outrage after judge compels private clinic to administer chlorine dioxide to 92-year-old coronavirus patient in a case medical doctors labelled "a scandal."

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentine judge orders chlorine dioxide be given to Covid patient

11-01-2021 16:28 Outrage as judge compels private clinic to administer chlorine dioxide to a coronavirus patient in a case medical doctors have labelled "a scandal."

ENVIRONMENT

Environmentalists, markets eye Argentina’s transgenic wheat askance

27-10-2020 14:33 Argentina became the first country to approve the growth and consumption of genetically modified drought-tolerant wheat earlier this month. Markets, healthcare professionals and environmental activists express concerns.

ENVIRONMENT

World isn't meeting any biodiversity goals, UN report finds

15-09-2020 15:29 Countries are set to miss all of the targets they set themselves a decade ago to preserve nature and save Earth's vital biodiversity, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Global pandemic

Antarctica is still free of Covid-19 – but can it stay that way?

13-09-2020 09:01 Antarctica remains the only continent without Covid-19 and a global effort is underway to make sure incoming visitors don't bring the virus with them.

Coronavirus pandemic

Clinical trials of equine serum for Covid-19 patients begin

28-07-2020 15:21 Argentina this week started clinical tests on patients using a hyperimmune solution based on equine serum, a potential medicament for treating people with Covid-19.

Science & Nature

Fly without flapping? Andean condors surf air 99 percent of time

14-07-2020 14:35 Condors found in Patagonia spend only 1% of their time aloft flapping their wings, a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.

SCIENCE & NATURE

Fossil of giant 70m year-old fish found in Patagonia

07-07-2020 01:52 Paleontologists find the remains of a predator fish that was more than six meters long near Lago Colhué Huapial in Chubut Province.

Legislative unity

Lower house approves bipartisan project to promote blood plasma donation

26-06-2020 13:50 Tensions put aside as lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies approve bipartisan bill to encourage donation of blood plasma from patients who have recovered from coronavirus.

Scientific breakthrough

Researchers develop therapeutic serum to treat Covid-19 patients

18-06-2020 17:58 Argentine researchers have developed a serum that could help treat coronavirus patients, according to the government.

Periodismo puro / Interview

Rifat Atun: 'The coronavirus pandemic has increased inequality'

11-06-2020 17:48 Dr Rifat Atun, professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard, tells Jorge Fontevecchia in an interview that it will "probably take around 10 to 12 months before a vaccine is available globally."

SCIENCE & NATURE

Fossil of two million year old frog found in Argentina

08-06-2020 23:01 Paleontologists find fossilised remains of a rare species of frog that lived two million years ago.

SCIENCE & RESEARCH

Underfunded staff at Malbrán Institute battle against coronavirus

04-04-2020 11:25 The ANLIS-Malbrán Institute is on the front line against the Covid-19 pandemic but over the last decade the research institute has suffered heavy cuts.

by By Nadia Dragneff, Perfil research team

MINISTRY POSITIONS

Science joins global hunt for vaccine

28-03-2020 10:48 The Science, Technology and Productive Innovation Ministry was created on the very first day of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner presidency in 2007. In the ensuing eight years of that controversial regime, it is difficult to find any initiative of hers which commanded approval across so wide a spectrum.

by Michael Soltys

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Argentina in race against time to halt advance of coronavirus

28-03-2020 10:07 Argentina, with one of the most robust health systems in Latin America, is racing against time to boost its capacity to respond to the spread of Covid-19, whose peaks of contagion loom for May.

SCIENCE

Argentina to participate in global study to determine possible virus treatments

28-03-2020 08:24 Scheme is called Solidarity and it will have two stages. Health Ministry is evaluating what methodology will be and who will participate. Conclusions will be compared with various countries.

Coronavirus outbreak

How did Covid-19 spread? Viral genetics leave trail of clues

25-03-2020 08:53 A small team of biologists spanning the globe unravels — and tweets out — the virus’ stealthy transmission patterns in near real-time.

International Honour

Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

14-02-2020 15:36 The group, known as the EAAF, has worked with victims in more than 60 countries of various catastrophes and conflicts.

Buenos Aires Province

New Buenos Aires Province Governor Kicillof warns of 'emergency'

11-12-2019 14:47 In his first speech to lawmakers as chief of nation's most-populous province, former economy minister denounces failures of Mauricio Macri administration and says region faces an urgent emergency.

ENVIRONMENT

Chilean Patagonia: an open-air lab to study climate change

04-09-2019 12:50 In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, scientists are studying whales, dolphins and algae in order to help predict how climate change will affect the world's oceans.

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Japan approves growing human organs in animals for first time

01-08-2019 13:58 It is the first step in what researchers caution is a very long path towards a future where human organs for transplant could be grown inside animals.

EDITORIAL

Sub-par funding for science cause for debate

06-07-2019 08:09 Rather than enter into this week’s round of the electoral hurly-burly, this editorial would like to step back and take a look at an area absolutely central to the world of the 21st century: science and technology.

SCIENCE

Prominent Argentine biologist wins prestigious prize for scientific research

05-06-2019 17:03 Sandra Myrna Díaz, who graduated in Biology at the National University of Cordoba and specialises in botany, recognised for pioneering work on how biodiversity can counter climate change.