Welcome to “A Spoonful Of Science”, the blog of CEBE

A few months ago a piece of news echoed through the different media in Europe. Facebook, now known as Meta, and led by its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, threatened to leave Europa by closing most of its services (including the famous Instagram platform). Although the population, in general, considered a risk that this technological giant would leave the European market, for the most expert, this statement was considered a very unbelievable threat.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been promising to revolutionize the world for many years but this revolution is taking longer than expected…

Can modern medicine alter your DNA? And if so, is that necessarily a bad thing? Let us talk gene therapy.

We know that life on Earth flourishes everywhere, for every crack, even in the most adverse conditions, life finds a way to breakthrough. But, as far as we know, that only happens on Earth. We do not know if our planet is a rarity, a cosmic anomaly, or if, on the contrary, life is not a coincidence but a consequence, and this, whenever it can, appears.

Many different disciplines are focused on how to ensure a future that guarantees food security while reducing the environmental impacts of agricultural activity. In short, we are looking at how to make agriculture sustainable.

A growing problem in an ageing society

Aída García explains all you need to know about the Nobel Prize in Physiology of 2021 to David Julius y Ardem Patapoutian in a short comic.

Winning text of the first prize from the jury and first prize from the public

Second prize from the jury and second prize from the public

Honorable Mention from the jury and third prize from the audience.

Winning image of the jury's first prize and the public's second prize

Winning image of the jury's second prize and the public's first prize

Honorable Mention from the jury

Ever wondered why do we have such a strong reaction to a specific sound? Are you one of those people that can’t resist the sound of nails scratching in a blackboard? In this blog post, I explain where your discomfort comes from.

According to the World’s Health Organization, cancer (and not Covid-19) was the leading cause of death worldwide with nearly 10,000,000 deaths in 2020. In this blog post, I approach the relationship between cancer and age to answer the question of one of our readers.

Get ready to travel 148 million kilometers at full speed. It will take only 8 minutes. This is the journey we are going to take to answer this question. However, as you will see, the most interesting stuff will happen in the last 100 km of the trip...

This blog post reflects on the extension of Spanish as a language of science.

2020 came with a pandemic and 2021 brings us various types of vaccines, with a ton of new terms. But do you know how each vaccine works? In this post, I explain what is essential for you to distinguish them.

An opinion article about the value of getting vaccinated in the Covid19 era.

Do you have a recurring stomachache or a certain intestinal discomfort after eating? Have you been told it's not a big deal, or that it might be due to stress? In this post we explain that these ailments have a biological origin and are more common than you thought.

Nobel Prizes are awarded each year to personalities who have made a crucial contribution in bringing benefits to humanity. The relevance of women in these awards has increased over time parallelly with social changes. There is still a long way to go to fill in the current gender gap.

Here you can find the first online seminar of the cycle "Towards the recovery of Europe: innovation, employment and mobility"

Here you can find the second online seminar of the cycle "Towards the recovery of Europe: innovation, employment and mobility"