How do we explore the seafloor and sub-seafloor? Tools and applications in Marine Geosciences. More than 70% of Earth's surface is covered by the oceans, however, there is little in-depth

Invisible nets. The art of clarifying how many marine organisms there are, what they are and what they do. The greater part of the biomass of living creatures in the

Els boscos marins, situats a onze quilòmetres de profunditat dels oceans, presenten una gran diversitat d’organismes animals. Hui en dia, malden per sobreviure a causa de l’acció humana.

Des de perspectives tan diverses com la filosofia, l'art o la literatura, el mar ha seduït la humanitat, ha estimulat la seua imaginació i li ha inspirat reflexions de tota mena.

En les darreres dècades els nous avenços tecnològics ens han acostat als indrets més llunyans i insòlits del món submarí. Tot i això, la desconeixença de la mar encara perdura.

Carl Sagan and Extraterrestrial Life. The life and scientific work of Carl Sagan are examined in the light of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) endeavour. His flamboyant personality is

Life on Mars - Scientific Speculation? In 1877, Giovani Schiaparelli accurately observed the surface of Mars and described it as a system of “canals”, implying that they had been built

Feijoo, Science in God's Service. Defender of modern science and an enemy of error, friar Benito Jerónimo Feijoo (1676-1764) is the great disseminator of Spanish Illustration; despite this, neither his

Giordano Bruno and the “New Philosophy”: the Infinite Universe and the Plurality of the Worlds. Giordano Bruno is often considered as a martyr of the first scientific revolution or as

Pierre Belon, a Modern Zoologist of the Renaissance. In the middle ages, the treasure of natural history learning was the Bestiary, in which biology and symbolism were mixed in similar

Quan Johann Wolfgang Goethe va explicar a Frederich Shiller la seua teoria de la metamorfosi de les plantes, aquest va contestar de manera tallant: "Tot em sembla bé, però no