The decade is about to end or not and that only means one thing: it's time to review the most popular content of the last days. Like every year at SINC we have selected the twelve news items that most interested our readers in recent months judging by their clicks. From female orgasms to quantum computers there is something for everyone. . Life is more than just work Juan Luis Arsuaga is responsible for some of the most important human fossil finds carried out in Spain. He also ensures that the Atapuerca sites Burgos are visited along with the Museum of Human Evolution of which he is scientific director by hundreds of thousands of people a year. In an interview with our colleague Adeline Marcos the paleoanthropologist reminds us of a forgotten truth not only in the field of research: that life must be more than just working all week.
How to understand the photo of the year This year the first photograph of a black hole reached the front pages of newspapers around the world. This is a feat comparable to trying to see a tennis ball on the Moon from Earth. Our colleague Enrique Sacristán explained CXB Directory to us the details of the image its historical importance and the challenges that lie ahead. . A working quantum computer? Perform a calculation that would take an advanced computer years in less than four minutes. It is the bold claim made by a team of Google researchers who this year published their results in Nature in the face of skepticism from the competition.
Our colleague Ana Hernando spoke with the researcher responsible for the project John Martinis in the midst of controversy over this new quantum computer. . Neanderthals with surfer's ear The continued exposure of our ears to water and wind produces an ailment known as exostosis better known as surfer's ear very common in those who practice water sports. A study published this year in the journal PLOS ONE showed that Neanderthals were prone to suffering from this problem as our trainee editor María Marín told us.