Great in smallness
You have in your hands the new magazine Elhuyar, smaller and more careful than the previous one. We owe change to you, to subscribers, and especially to those who pass on opinions and proposals to us. In fact, thanks to you we have decided to give more prominence to scientists, to people, reinforcing the analyses and ordering the section of Free Topic. May the magazine continue to be the meeting point for Basques who love science.
In this issue we see the most fleeting virus: the human immunodeficiency virus. Faced with the greatest effort of science in history against a virus, HIV has always found gaps to escape. But UNESCO has set the goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030. The countdown has begun. We interviewed virologist Eva Poveda to analyze the factors that can condition the elimination of the virus.
We have also approached the Red River, its red and acidic waters. There are no fish, no amphibians, no insects. It may be thought that it is not the right place for life, but it is the other way around: the Red River has been created by living beings. Beings living under the ground hundreds of meters. They feed on unique rocks without organic matter, without oxygen. According to NASA, the existence of life on Mars could be assimilated to this dark underground biosphere of the Red River. Thus, after thousands of years in a mine to extract copper, silver and gold, it has become an example of Mars and a place of research. Seduced by its beauty, we have brought for you the red waters and pigmented rocks of the Red River.
But in this special issue, the body is the protagonist. We place the brain at the center of our human condition, as if it were the cradle of our thoughts and what makes us human. But the body also has a lot to say. The body has largely the key to memory, the body conditions our feelings, the ability to understand what we hear. Neuroscientists work to clarify how the brain and body communicate, how they interact with each other. But it is not easy to imagine how it is investigated. They do so through experiments that put the person out of the body, among others. Come in and discover it.
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