Interviews
Reconstructing scientific devices with H. Otto Sibum
"Usually, when you try to perform the experiment it ends in a great mess: most often you face the fact that the experiment does not work. Then you carefully read the historical publication again and you notice that the historical actor must have left out an important hint in his text, because the replica does not work as it should be."
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Great Challenges of Biomedicine
The CCCB hosts a debate series on the limits set by biomedicine and the promises that it is opening up and expanding with regard to its effects on our health.
Highlights
Art and History
Menéndez Pelayo's contribution to Spanish philosophy
Despite the ideological prejudices that for many years have accompanied the analysis of the work of Menéndez Pelayo, a doctoral thesis at the UAB shows how his contributions to philosophy, must be regarded as far from the extreme tendencies of the time. Menéndez Pelayo's philosophical work is a notable contribution to the history of Spanish philosophical thought.
Communication Studies
Interactivity in children's entertainment
Using the popular, multi-platform, Catalan children's channel Super3 as a case study, a doctoral thesis at the UAB has studied interactivity in children's television and in internet content. This research has provided new information regarding the identification of styles of dialogue and has established categories that will provide a better understanding of this phenomenon.
Environment and Preservation
The Rough Bindweed, good for cleaning contaminated soil
UAB researchers have conducted a study which shows that Rough Bindweed, a Mediterranean climbing plant, is a good candidate for phytoremediation, to clean soils of metal contaminants. Rough Bindweed does not transfer the absorbed metals to its leaves, thus preventing these metals from entering the food chain through herbivores.
Physics
The Magic Telescopes opened an unexplored window on the cosmic radiation
Researchers at the Department of Physics at the UAB have participated in the design and scientific exploration of the first MAGIC telescope together with Italian and German researchers. This telescope has allowed spectacular findings related with cosmic rays and has, for example, obtained very valuable data for the interpretation of pulsars.
Climate change: effects on the Arctic
Scientists led by the German Alfred Wegener Institute, among them two ICTA-UAB PhD students, have shown for the first time that global warming is causing alterations to the whole ecosystem of the Arctic, from surface to depth, more quickly than previously thought. [ + Videos ]
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