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INSPIRA project to promote STEM education among young girls
2018-06-22
BCAM supports the INSPIRA project to promote STEM education among young girls Amaia Abanda, a researcher from the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, collaborates as a mentor in this initiative promoted by the University of Deusto The number of students that choose scientific or technological studies is dropping every year, with a decrease that […]
The Belle II experiment and SuperKEKB: adddressing questions about the Cosmos
2018-06-18
The particle accelerator SuperKEKB, in Japan will break the world record of particle accelerator luminosity and particle collision rateThe Spanish contributors IFIC, IFCA and ITAINNOVA have developed a new detector for Belle II: DEPFETThese joint efforts will contribute data to answer fundamental questions about the Cosmos A few words about elementary particle physics In particle […]
SOMMa releases a Position Paper contributing to the discussion on the future FP9
2018-06-01
FP9 will be yet another stepping-stone for Europe’s future as an innovation and economic growth polePublic consultations take place during the year 2018 to contribute to the design of the successor of H2020 Framework Programmes and Horizon 2020 The Framework Programmes (FPs) are funding plans created by the EU/EC to support research in the European […]
Magnetic Supercapacitors, new hybrid materials for energy storage
2018-05-14
In the framework of an ERC proof-of-concept European Project, Magnetic Supercapacitors, new hybrid materials for energy storage based on graphene and magnetic nanoparticles, have been developed. The rapid increase in energy demand in recent years has accelerated the search for low-cost alternatives for energy storage and conversion. Currently, batteries are still considered as the dominating […]
Spain: Industry sides with science
2018-05-09
Business organizations, and associations connected to R+D+i express their support towards research, backing the petition of the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu alliance (SOMMa). SOMMa advocates in favour of the political class acting to clear the administrative problems currently affecting science in Spain.SOMMa and the organizations supporting this initiative represent close to 6,800 businesses, […]
Size of ancient animals inferred from resurrected proteins
2018-05-03
The prestigious journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology has published a piece of research conducted by CIC nanoGUNE researchers. They have experimentally reconstructed titin fragments from their common ancestors and measured their mechanochemical properties. They have discovered a correlation between the properties of the protein measured on a nanoscale and animal size. The Ikerbasque researcher Raúl […]
New AI-based method to diagnose breast cancer
2018-04-30
A new artificial intelligence-based method to diagnose breast cancer is developed in an international partnership featuring IFIC A team of researchers from the Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), has participated in the development of a system to help in the diagnosis of breast cancer. The development, which will be of great help in clinical practice, […]
Risk expert Montse Guillen: pensions will inevitably be lower in the future
2018-04-27
Risk expert Montse Guillen has strong opinions about pensions. She notes that the current pension system in Spain and in many other western countries is mathematically unsustainable and believes it should be totally redesigned, giving more responsibility to the individuals. The key factors that make it unbalanced are increasing life-expectancies, low salaries and the need […]
Ice age thermostat prevented extreme climate cooling
2018-04-24
During the ice ages, an unidentified regulatory mechanism prevented atmospheric CO2 concentrations from falling below a level that could have led to runaway cooling, reports a study conducted by researchers of the ICTA-UAB and published online in Nature Geoscience this week. The study suggests the mechanism may have involved the biosphere, as plants and plankton […]
On the protective effects of Alzheimer’s on Cancer
2018-04-23
A study published in the journal Scientific Reports studies the comorbility relations between these two diseases. Patients with Alzheimer’s disease have a higher risk of developing glioblastoma and a lower risk of lung cancer. A paper published in Scientific Reports by researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), headed by Alfonso Valencia, a […]
From galaxies far far away!
2018-04-23
In a paper that appeared in Science on 22 September (Science 357, 1266–1270 (2017)), the Pierre Auger Collaboration reports observational evidence demonstrating that cosmic rays with energies about a million times greater than that of the protons accelerated in the Large Hadron Collider come from much further away than from our own Galaxy. Ever since […]
Towards calcium-based batteries
2018-04-23
The development of a rechargeable battery technology using light electropositive metal anodes would bring in a breakthrough in energy density. For divalent charge carriers (M2+), the number of ions that must react to achieve a certain electrochemical capacity is diminished by two when compared to Li+. This would allow for the design of higher energy […]