More about how alien life could be, even in our own solar system: Life in Europa’s ocean could feed on rocks’ radioactive decay | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Miquel Roca dice casi al final de su artículo: “Habrá que recuperar la sensibilidad social de la Europa del bienestar”. ¿Es una denuncia del neoliberalismo que nos ha llevado a donde estamos ahora, generando desigualdad extrema y pérdida de esperanza? www.lavanguardia.com/opinion/2025...

An updated post on how life could be in other places in the solar system and the universe: open.substack.com/pub/juanjorq...

Editorial by H. Holden Thorp at Science related to the growth of renewable electricity sources: “The 2025 Breakthrough of the Year is accompanied by a breakdown for the United States in failing to benefit from its own innovations.“ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

This was the most viewed chart from the Our World in Data website. Let us hope China and India reach peak emissions soon and start reducing them promptly. ourworldindata.org/grapher/annu...

Scientists keep identifying organisms living under extreme conditions. open.substack.com/pub/juanjorq...

Scary Note #2 on Artificial Intelligence Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scary Note #1 on AI (…) it is possible for machines to discover a state-of-the-art reinforcement learning (RL) rule that outperforms manually designed rules. (…) the RL algorithms required for advanced artificial intelligence may soon be automatically discovered. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Think twice before tattooing. Although this is a study in mice, the ink commonly reaches and persists in lymph nodes, often lifelong. Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Make Russia Pay for Its War on Ukraine by Joseph E. Stiglitz, et al @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/4t85BrB?refe...

Positive results from around 12 studies over the past three years on CAR-T-cell therapy. Engineered immune cells are being used to successfully treat people with a range of debilitating autoimmune conditions, such as ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An interesting article by Stephen Holmes, a professor at New York University School of Law and Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. MAGA’s Death Wish by Stephen Holmes @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/jpWhLXO?refe...

A piece of bad news… Developed countries must help so no country, no people, is left behind in relation to progress. ourworldindata.org/end-progress...

“… cutting the research funding has been simply a mechanism for politicians to lash back at the entire system of higher education …” H. Holden Thorp. My not-so-favorite year | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Do not miss this article by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics. www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/tru...

World leaders must find the courage to end the fossil-fuel age www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is good news, but not as good as it may appear. Flat or declining emissions will still increase CO₂ in the atmosphere. Before the industrial times, CO₂ was 280 ppm. Today it is 420 ppm, causing an average temperature increase that will exceed 1.5 ºC by 2100. www.science.org/content/arti...

Chamberlain Prize indeed. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

Great news in the fight against malaria, thanks to science and research. ‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Certainly, otherworldly ecosystems… In case you missed my series of posts about potential alien life on my website, jijorquera.wixsite.com/onscienceand... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Trump administration is not expected to send any high-level representatives to the COP 30 meeting starting in Brazil, and many say that’s for the best. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The attached images, originals by Ramón Puyol from 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, drew my attention. They reflect in a funny way two extremes in reaction to the conflict: the pessimist and the optimist. substack.com/@juanjorquer...

Updated post about how Life could be in other planets. Aliens: Life in Other Worlds open.substack.com/pub/juanjorq...

An updated post about the beginning of the universe juanjorquera.substack.com/p/where-do-w...

Where do we come from? Universe: The Beginning open.substack.com/pub/juanjorq...

If some universities, as institutions, fail the society, their professors and students should act and shame their managers. Higher education fails at collective action | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Gran exposición sobre caricaturas contra Hitler y el nazismo en el Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña en Barcelona, hechas por Mario Armengol. En un futuro cercano, espero, visitaremos exposiciones de caricaturas contra la ola de imitadores actuales. www.museunacional.cat/en/ink-again...

Remarkably interesting exposition on cartoons against Hitler and Nazism at the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona. In the - near, I hope- future we will visit expositions of cartoons against the current wave of present-day imitators. www.museunacional.cat/en/ink-again...

Our World in Data keeps doing an amazing job to keep us well informed: Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year. For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives. ourworldindata.org/us-foreign-a...

Trojan gold: New US “standard” is another veiled attack on science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oh my God! Unbelievable! The Press appears to report data on causes of death from a parallel universe… Nothing to do with reality... ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

Vaccines, probably the best invention of humanity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No Peace Noble Prize... And Nobel Prize to the economic impact of science and technology as drivers of progress and economic growth... Somebody may be thinking of invading Sweden... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/b...

A great article by Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize on Economics. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...

The oath of any health care provider: Primum non nocere (First, do no harm.) From the Washington Post: Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

More good ne2s, thanks to science, good research, and competent public health regulators www.science.org/content/arti...

The Making or Breaking of Democracy by Joseph E. Stiglitz @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/kcSU69N

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Premio Nobel de Economía: "Una persona que está muriéndose de hambre no tiene libertad" www.eldiario.es/1_c0dd22?utm...

OPINIÓN | Conflicto generacional, un debate tramposo, www.eldiario.es/129_c09b40?u...

School meals represent an enormous opportunity to move beyond incremental progress toward transformational change. What a Mission-Oriented Approach to School Meals Could Do by Mariana Mazzucato @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/uTIibUs

In fact, the conclusions of the study are much stronger than NYT's headline: The fact that greenhouse gases harm human health is “beyond scientific dispute”, reads a report from one of the leading scientific bodies in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

This study predicts that over 70% of tropical western Atlantic reefs will suffer erosion by 2040, but that if warming exceeds 2 °C (SSP2–4.5 and higher), nearly all reefs (at least 99%) will be eroding by 2100, increasing the risk of flooding, and modifying ecosystems. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OPINIÓN | Papanatismo ideológico, por Joan Coscubiela www.eldiario.es/129_c03c09?u...

...Owing to global warming since 1850–1900, the median of the heatwaves during 2000–2009 became about 20 times more likely, and about 200 times more likely during 2010–2019. Overall, one-quarter of these events were virtually impossible without climate change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Good news: www.science.org/content/arti...