Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa, Tonelli served as spokesperson of the CMS experiment at CERN, one of the two large international scientific collaborations, together with ATLAS, searching for experimental proof of the existence of the Higgs boson.
The palaeontological site of Fumanya, in the Berguedà region, is well-known for containing numerous samples of fossilised dinosaur footprints. It is there that researchers from the UAB and the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology recently discovered some very peculiar...
Researchers at the Department of Animal Health and Anatomy of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona recently began a pilot project to test contraceptives in wild boars of wild boars wandering around the urban and peri-urban areas of the Vallès Occidnetal's group of...
Eugenio Coccia, experimental physicist with expertise in astroparticle physics, focuses his research on the development of ultra-cryogenic detectors of gravitational waves, neutrinos and cosmic rays. He is director of the INFN Center for Advanced Studies “Gran Sasso Science Institute”, president of the...
Paul Spence is Senior Lecturer at King's College London, where he has twice acted as Head of Department for what is the only academic department of digital humanities in the world. Paul Spence has worked as a journalist, has an academic background in Spanish and Latin American studies and is an expert in digital...
Juan Uriagereka is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. A close associate of Noam Chomsky, he has published articles in the most prestigious journals in the field and books with international publishers like MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Blackwell and Routledge....
UAB's researchers have found a bacterium that can help to clean up contaminated waters. After three years’ research, they have shown these bacteria's capacity to transform some of organochlorine compounds that are frequently found in aquifers into harmless products.
Thomas Tufte, professor at Roskilde University (Denmark) and global expert on the concept of Communication for Development, conducts research on how to use the media to achieve a better world, which take into account human rights, social justice and social and economic equality. He says that communication is allowed in many...
Dimitri Roussopoulos, writer, editor and environmental activist, has participated in peace initiatives, enviromental projects and cooperative movements. He has headed the working group on Municipal Democracy in Montreal, been involved in the World Social Forums, and worked to set up an extra-parliamentary...
Josep Call is Director of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) and a lecturer in the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews (UK). He specialises in the study of the cognitive processes that distinguish humans from...
