An 87-year-old Madrid woman whose eviction triggered nationwide protests over Spain's chronic housing crisis and a political debate that culminated in early elections died on Wednesday, a tenants' union said.

Cerca de la cima del monte Lanaro/Volnik, en el municipio de Sgonico/Zgonik, hay una cueva llamada Tina Jama. Estamos en el Carso triestino, la meseta caliza que se levanta detrás de Trieste, pegada a la frontera con Eslovenia. El monte está protegido como reserva natural de unas 285 hectáreas, incluida en la red Natura 2000. […]

In a cave on the Italian side of the Slovenian border, one layer of earth holds the remains of the first farmers. The layer right below it belongs to the hunters who lived there before them. The cave is called Tina Jama. It opens near the summit of Mount Lanaro/Volnik, in the municipality of Sgonico/Zgonik, […]

For decades, one of the best-known stories in science was told like a movie. In 1953, at the age of 23, James Watson visited Maurice Wilkins’s laboratory at King’s College London. There, Wilkins showed him a photograph of DNA taken by Rosalind Franklin, and Watson had an epiphany. “The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race,” Watson wrote in The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, the book in which he recounted, 15 years later, how he and Francis Crick unraveled the structure of DNA.

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Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch. That’s what happened to the regional premier of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in June 2022 during one of her trips to Miami, where she posed beside a large bear sculpture that she said would end up on a public roundabout in the southern Florida city. Meant to represent Madrid, the large, candy-like bear has instead been parked in the hallway of a well-known Miami restaurant, where it serves as a decorative item.

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Spain faces a snap election on November 29th, with three party leaders in focus after Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the vote following parliament's rejection of his proposed housing measures.

Autumn is here and that means harvest time for many fruits and vegetables in Spain. But, it’s also one of the best times of year for foraging, including for wild mushrooms, chestnuts and wild berries.

Loneliness is a recurring theme in online groups for foreigners in Spain, a mental health issue which is almost taboo in a country known for being sociable. The Local spoke to a Spain-based therapist to find out why.

For more than three centuries, astronomers asking whether the Solar System is stable have received ever more comforting answers. Isaac Newton was not so sure. He suspected that the mutual tugs between Jupiter and Saturn would eventually wreck the planetary order, and that only divine intervention could prevent it. By the late 1700s, Laplace and […]

Eva Marie Saint, one of the last great actresses from Alfred Hitchcock’s universe, died on Tuesday, October 6 at her home in Los Angeles, family representatives said. She was 102.

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The Great Sphinx has been without a nose for centuries. Now a fossil crocodile skull taken from the same rock turns out to be missing the tip of its snout too. The coincidence has put a name on a species science did not know it had, Herugavialis cairensis, which spent almost a hundred years in […]

Durante más de tres siglos, la pregunta de si el Sistema Solar es estable ha ido recibiendo respuestas cada vez más tranquilizadoras. Isaac Newton sospechaba que los tirones mutuos entre Júpiter y Saturno acabarían desbaratando el orden planetario, y que haría falta una intervención divina para evitarlo. A finales del siglo XVIII, Laplace y Lagrange […]

La Gran Esfinge lleva siglos sin nariz, y el cráneo fósil de un cocodrilo extraído de su misma roca tampoco conserva la punta del hocico. La coincidencia ha dado nombre a una especie desconocida hasta ahora, Herugavialis cairensis, que durante casi cien años estuvo clasificada con la etiqueta equivocada. El estudio se publica en la […]

En 2017 el cineasta Christopher Nolan recuperó con Dunkerque el recuerdo de la batalla homónima en la que los Aliados tuvieron que retirarse apresurada y agónicamente del continente europeo ante el avance imparable del ejército alemán en 1940, al principio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pero, siendo ése el episodio bélico más conocido que acogió […]

There will be even more holiday packages available for British tourists heading to Spain next summer as the three big players in the British tour operating market are expanding their offerings, from hotels to new flight routes.

Known as a political survivor whose previous gambles have largely paid off, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is really walking the tightrope this time, ahead of the snap general election which he called for November 29th.

In 2017 the director Christopher Nolan brought Dunkirk back to cinema screens with Dunkirk, a film about the hurried and agonising retreat of the Allied armies from the European mainland in 1940. The German advance through France had been unstoppable, and the Second World War was only months old. That evacuation is the best-known episode […]

Storms to continue in Catalonia, American vulture fund Blackstone gets state deal handling Spain's social housing, Valencia’s Peñíscola turns into film set for tourists and more news on Wednesday October 7th.