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The Rough Bindweed, good for cleaning contaminated soil
The process by which plants are used to remove metals from contaminated soils is called phytoremediation. Phytoremediation plants must have a very high tolerance to metals, must be resistant to various factors and should not transfer the metals to their leaves,...
A method to treat multiple sclerosis relapses
Researchers at the Department of Neurology of the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital in Badalona have developed a new protocol to treat relapses of multiple sclerosis. This protocol classifies the intensity of relapses as mild, moderate or severe, according to their score on the EDSS...
The Magic Telescopes opened an unexplored window on the cosmic radiation
In October 2003, several representatives of European institutions and a group of scientists inaugurated the first MAGIC telescope. MAGIC was realized by a collaboration of few European institutes, mostly Spanish, Italian and German. It was...
The incestuous relationship between media and politicians
In democratic societies, mass media have been defined as the "fourth power" because of their social influence and their function as a counterbalance to possible abuses by the other powers. In this sense, the media are seen as a tool for invigorating the...
What attracts our visual attention?
A doctoral thesis conducted at the Department of Computer Science of the UAB has studied which parts of an image attract our attention the most and which parts seem aesthetically pleasing to us and which not. The study suggests that regions that attract our attention can be predicted by the...
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