Penny Sarchet

1 month ago | cadenadial.com | Ana Más |Penny Sarchet

Comparte: Los padres de hoy en día estamos saturados de consejos sobre crianza, que van de lo más exigente a lo más respetuoso, no cabe duda. Y es que muchas veces tantas teorías nos saturan y sobre todo nos crean una presión excesiva a la hora de decidir la mejor forma de criar a nuestros niños y si esta será la correcta o nos estaremos equivocando escogiéndola y como afectará a nuestros hijos.

1 month ago | newscientist.com | Penny Sarchet

MotherdomAlex Bollen (Verso (UK, out now; US, pending))Relax, but be on constant alert. Enjoy your baby, but take them very seriously. Follow your instincts, but do exactly what the scientists and health professionals say. Amid such a deluge of “expert” advice, is it any wonder that the experience of modern parenting – motherhood, in particular – can often feel exhausting and impossible?

Sep 18, 2024 | newscientist.com | Penny Sarchet

The following is an extract from our nature newsletter Wild Wild Life. Sign up to receive it for free in your inbox every month. Cacti are one of the world’s most beguiling and easily recognised plant families, but how and why the spiky family evolved into its many diverse shapes and sizes has been a mystery. Now, researchers are untangling the ancient history of the Cactaceae, revealing some surprising forces that shaped these plants, and prompting concern for their future.

Aug 20, 2024 | newscientist.com | Penny Sarchet

Until recently, many discounted the idea that life could have existed on Earth before 3.8 billion years ago because it was thought that heavy pummelling from asteroids would have made this impossible. But several lines of evidence are pointing to an earlier origin of life, and as we begin to question whether the late heavy bombardment really happened at all, it’s beginning to look like life started surprisingly early in our planet’s history.

Jul 3, 2024 | newscientist.com | Penny Sarchet

A multicolour venomous snake, found in dry tropical forests in central Vietnam, is a newly-recognised species. Trimeresurus cyanolabris has a bright grass-green body, yellow eyes, brick red tail and blue lips, chin and throat, and has been dubbed the blue-lipped green pitviper. The snake, which feeds on small frogs and lizards, is most active at dusk and after nightfall, spending the day perched on branches or in the hollows of trees near streams. T.