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The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration published today a new catalog of gravitational wave events. A total of 161 events, detected between April 2024 and the end of January 2025, have been added to the collection, bringing the total number of gravitational wave signals detected to date to 390. IFAE is a member of the Virgo and LIGO […]
Andrés Henao and Francisco Molina featured in the Supercomputing in Europe podcast on AI in Materials Science
2026-05-27
ICN2 researchers Andrés Henao and Francisco Molina were featured in the Supercomputing in Europe podcast, where they discussed how AI and high-performance computing are transforming materials science. Go to Source
PhD Diary: A Community Experience — Inside the MSCA-COFUND TOUCH Programme
2026-05-27
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A new simulation- and AI-based approach reduces the time and data needed for brain MRI scans
2026-05-27
The study, published in Communications Medicine, combines magnetic resonance imaging and simulation-based artificial intelligence to speed up brain analysis while maintaining a high level of accuracy. The method avoids the use of real patient data for training, reduces bias, and could facilitate the implementation of these advanced techniques in hospitals, helping to shorten waiting lists […]
WINPRINT: Printing Smart Windows to Improve Energy Efficiency
2026-05-27
This project, which brings together researchers from ICN2, spin-off company Futurechromes SL, and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), focuses on designing and developing innovative, nanotechnology-based solutions to reduce energy consumption in buildings. Go to Source
REBOOT: the trial reshaping cardiology and cementing the CNIC’s place as a driver of new clinical practice 2026-05-27For decades, the routine prescription of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction has been one of the cornerstones of clinical cardiology—an unquestioned recommendation embedded in international guidelines and applied daily in hospitals around the world. Today, that long-standing certainty is beginning to crack, thanks to the REBOOT clinical trial—an ambitious CNIC-led international study that is already reshaping […]
Dr. Carla Casadevall, finalist for the 2026 Princesa de Girona Scientific Research Award 2026-05-26Dr. Carla Casadevall, associate researcher at ICIQ and group leader at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, has been named one of the five finalists for the 2026 Princesa de Girona Scientific Research Award. The announcement of the winner—researcher Rafael Luque from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía—was made official this Tuesday during the central event […]
Rafael Luque, a researcher at the IAA-CSIC, is the winner of the 2026 Princess of Girona Research Award. 2026-05-26Rafael Luque, a researcher at the IAA-CSIC, is the winner of the 2026 Princess of Girona Research Award. Go to Source
Ab initio Nuclear Theory: A Crash Course 2026-05-26Image Course Ab initio Nuclear Theory: A Crash Course Date 01/06 05/06/2026 Place Pere Pascual V5.07 Room and via Zoom This intensive course will provide an introduction to modern ab initio nuclear theory, focusing on fundamental concepts and state-of-the-art computational approaches to the nuclear many-body problem. The course is designed for graduate students & postdoctoral […]
Beyond the conventional nuclear superfluidity: triplet and mixed-spin superfluids across nucleonic systems, pairing at the drip-line, and more 2026-05-26Image Seminar Beyond the conventional nuclear superfluidity: triplet and mixed-spin superfluids across nucleonic systems, pairing at the drip-line, and more Date 03/06 Place Pere Pascual V5.07 Room and via Zoom Abstract: Pairing of nucleons is a well-known property of nuclei and nucleonic matter and the mechanism driving nuclear superfluidity. While it bears a connection to the […]
Strengthening environmental stewardship practices to improve biodiversity protection worldwide 2026-05-26Indigenous and local communities are not secondary actors in biodiversity conservation, but decisive agents who are already protecting the natural environment worldwide. Go to Source
Bubble Wall Velocity Simplified: Tractable Regimes and Closed‑Form Estimates 2026-05-26Image Seminar Bubble Wall Velocity Simplified: Tractable Regimes and Closed‑Form Estimates Date 28/05 Place Pere Pascual V5.07 Room Abstract: I will review the current status of bubble wall velocity calculations in cosmological first‑order phase transitions and introduce a simplified framework that bounds the velocity between two analytically tractable limits: local thermal equilibrium and ballistic transport. In […]