At the beginning of the 20th century miners used caged canaries to detect the presence of lethal gases, but the chemistry of the 21st century respects animals and represents a giant step in electrochemical detection. Researchers at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona are studying the possibility of using a new...
Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) displays have received great attention in the optical technology market since they can be used as spatial light modulators (SLM) for applications such us optical image processing, holographic storage, adaptive optics,...
Ecological farming is possible and the range of possibilities is large, but not all are advantages. The biodiversity of fields is affected by the changes involved in both using organic fertilisers and the management of weeds. Precisely how weeds are eliminated seems to be...
A collaboration research carried out by the teams of Jordi Surrallés, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB); Juan Carlos Izpisúa-Belmonte and Ángel Raya, Centre for Regenerative Medicine of Barcelona (CMRB); and Juan Antonio Bueren, Centre for Energetic,...
A group of researchers from the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology (ICP-UAB), directed by professor Salvador Moyà-Solà, published this week in the prestigious US scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the results of their research regarding...
Determining the gender of a pathological gambler when describing the clinical profile of this patient is a good means to develop more specific and effective treatments. This is so given that in the past few years pathological gamblers are no longer only middle-aged men. Adolescents...
