The Sociology, Technology and the Environment (IASTE) group from the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambiental (ICTA) has made a study focused on the Cerro Patacón landfill in Panama City in order to analyze the impact of pollutant gases, emitted by solid waste thrown...
What is the relationship between urbanization and economic development? Historically, both processes have gone hand in hand; developed countries are today also the most urbanized. However, during the last decades, many developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, have undergone accelerated...
Antibiotic measurement results need to be as accurate as possible in order to provide the proper antibiotic treatment of osteoarticular infections, while avoiding their resistance. Among the strategies,...
Researchers of the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), with the Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia de la UAB have developed materials that emit efficient blue light, combining the...
Hydrogen bonds, due to their intermolecular strength, and co-crystalline structures, due to their versatility and power of physical transformation, are relevant in materials science. The latter are formed with the former...
The doctoral dissertation subject of this article takes body and writing on two new meanings (not completely linked to meaning) and are analyzed from different perspectives, those by...
A study of two parks in Barcelona that have had very different impacts on children’s social skills shows the importance of considering social structures in the planning of new parks and urban play...
In the last decade, the incursion of the Industry 4.0 paradigm, as well as the adoption of artificial intelligence and specially the artificial neural network, has arisen a change in the the vision and management...
Reading the life-history of organisms in their bones and teeth is the main task of vertebrate palaeontologists. Bone remains of extinct species do not only evidence about who (taxonomy) or how (morphometry) they were, but also about the...
Most of the time we adults take language for granted, unless one day we have to learn a new one. Then, things change radically. However, things seem to work differently for her (here a picture of a baby). She can’t tie a simple knot, draw a decent...
