Archive of Chilean science news | Física Eterna
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- WHO validates Chile as the first country in South America to eliminate dog-transmitted human rabies, with its last case in 1972 — 14 de Septiembre, 2026
- The Universidad Austral de Chile develops a rapid antibody test specific to Andes virus, the hantavirus strain that circulates in Chile — 25 de Septiembre, 2026
- Students at Liceo Bicentenario Mary Graham in Villa Alemana speak by radio with astronaut Jack Hathaway aboard the International Space Station — 28 de Septiembre, 2026
- A Universidad del Desarrollo study links post-COVID-19 cognitive symptoms to changes in brain rhythms and white matter, and finds two distinct patient profiles — 23 de Septiembre, 2026
- A Universidad de Santiago student develops a dressing for complex wounds from ulmo honey and carrageenan from a southern red seaweed — 30 de Septiembre, 2026
- A study that tracked smoke from 1,121 wildfires in Chile links each additional day of exposure to 10.9% more respiratory hospitalisations among infants under one — 2 de Octubre, 2026
- Students at Liceo Bicentenario Simón Bolívar in Las Condes win the Latin American second prize at Science Bits with DermaPatch, a transdermal vitamin D patch — 28 de Septiembre, 2026
- A Universidad Mayor study shows that diet determines how blue and humpback whales are exposed to methylmercury and metals in the fjords of northern Patagonia — 29 de Septiembre, 2026
- A UC Engineering team uses video and simulations to reconstruct the 27 seconds between the liquefied gas leak and ignition in the Renca tanker truck accident — 5 de Octubre, 2026
- The Universidad de Chile's CeBiB identifies PETS26b, an enzyme from Atacama Desert Streptomyces bacteria that hydrolyses PET plastic — 13 de Agosto, 2026
- Chilean researchers describe Quitralco Fjord as the first euxinic fjord in Chilean Patagonia: no oxygen and hydrogen sulfide below 90 metres, near an active volcano — 9 de Octubre, 2026
- Chilean researchers compile 246 records of the 1960 tsunami along the coast facing the rupture, using survivor interviews, aerial photographs and LiDAR — 8 de Octubre, 2026
- A Universidad de Chile study of Chilean tinamou embryos shows that the avian wishbone forms from the clavicles and the interclavicle, a composite origin inherited from dinosaurs — 9 de Octubre, 2026
- A fossil Cardiatherium molar found in Caldera is the oldest record of a capybara in Chile and shows that southern Atacama had fresh water about 8.8 million years ago — 28 de Septiembre, 2026
- A team led by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) describes the first fossil footprints of a mammal in Antarctica, left about 55 million years ago by a small predator — 13 de Octubre, 2026
- Hospital Clínico Félix Bulnes, with specialists from Hospital Barros Luco, performs the first robotic mastectomy in Chile, preserving the nipple with immediate reconstruction — 7 de Octubre, 2026
- The iHEALTH Millennium Institute at Universidad Católica is working on a low-field MRI scanner costing under 30,000 dollars, using artificial intelligence to recover image quality — 6 de Octubre, 2026
- Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics alone, for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin — 6 de Octubre, 2026
- Chilean neuroscientist Charles Zuker, born in Arica, wins the 2026 Wolf Prize in Medicine for revolutionising our understanding of taste — 1 de Octubre, 2026
- Chile's geological survey, Sernageomin, says the San Carlos de Apoquindo debris flow was a flash flood, and the CR2 climate centre describes it as a compound event set up by wildfire and drought — 8 de Octubre, 2026
- A Universidad de Chile team detects tectonic tremor for the first time in the subduction zone between the Antarctic and South American plates, in southern Patagonia — 1 de Septiembre, 2026
- Margaret Hamilton led the team that wrote the Apollo onboard flight software at MIT, fought to protect it from human error, and helped programming come to be called "engineering" — 30 de Septiembre, 2026
- A team including researchers from the Universidad de Chile achieves the first 3D orbital reconstruction of a massive protobinary system and concludes its two protostars formed separately — 8 de Septiembre, 2026
- Constanza Napolitano leads the Conservation Genetics Laboratory at the Universidad de Los Lagos and studies the güiña by extracting DNA from faecal samples, without capturing a single animal — 4 de Septiembre, 2026
- At ASCO 2026, the oral RAS inhibitor daraxonrasib doubled survival in previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer: from 6.7 to 13.2 months — 29 de Mayo, 2026
- A study in Science Advances concludes that the Cerro El Plomo child died of head trauma as part of the Inca Capacocha ceremony, not hypothermia — 17 de Julio, 2026
- OpenAI claims to have proved the existence of singularities in the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems — 8 de Septiembre, 2026
- Merck and Moderna's personalised mRNA therapy meets its goals in the first phase 3 trial against melanoma — 19 de Agosto, 2026
- 33 Darwin's frogs are born at London Zoo after the emergency rescue of 53 specimens from Chiloé — 3 de Febrero, 2025
- Gloria Montenegro wins the 2026 National Prize for Applied Sciences and Technology and becomes the first woman to receive it — 7 de Septiembre, 2026
- The new Chilean seismic code NCh433:2026 recognises active geological faults for the first time, and will require special studies to build near them — 8 de Septiembre, 2026
- The James Webb telescope detects MoM-BH*-1, the first "black hole star": a black hole wrapped in gas that emits 100 billion times more energy than any known star — 14 de Agosto, 2026
- A strengthening El Niño points to a 2026-2027 summer with a higher chance of heatwaves and extreme daytime highs in Chile — 3 de Agosto, 2026
- Astronomers at Universidad Diego Portales detect the first planetary-mass exosatellite in CD-35 2722, an object as massive as Jupiter orbiting a brown dwarf — 22 de Julio, 2026
- TAPCells, the cancer vaccine developed at Universidad de Chile, moves to an international phase II trial with 140 patients at the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo — 11 de Agosto, 2026
- DNA from two mummies in northern Chile provides the first genetic proof that smallpox reached the Americas with European colonisation — 5 de Agosto, 2026
- Chilean fisheries authorities open the door to lifting the ban on hunting sea lions, and a researcher warns that selective culling does not resolve the conflict with small-scale fishing — 4 de Agosto, 2026
- Juan Pablo García-Huidobro, the first molecular pharmacologist in Chile, is a candidate for the 2026 National Prize for Natural Sciences — 31 de Julio, 2026
- Chilean researchers find early epigenetic alterations linked to the origin of schizophrenia — 24 de Julio, 2026
- Researchers at Universidad de Concepción develop an enzyme able to repair the genetic damage caused by UV radiation — 25 de Mayo, 2026