The Gender and ICT group at the Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, UOC) is now in charge of coordinating INSPIRE, a new EU-funded center of excellence for gender equality in research that will run for 48 months starting this October.…

An underwater pipeline connecting the ports of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and Marseille (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France) is unlikely to help ease Europe’s energy crisis in the short term, analysts said, with Spain and France both agreeing it may not…

Global consumption of antidepressant drugs (AD) has increased dramatically in the last two decades, with Europeans the largest consumers, Euronews reported. Use of antidepressants increased by nearly two and a half times from 2000 to 2020 in 18 European countries…

On the AP-7, the highway that runs along the Mediterranean coast all the way to France, there were up to 50 km of traffic jams at various points on Friday evening ahead of what for many will be a long weekend with All Saints’ Day on Tuesday. Catalonia‘s Traffic…

Photo: Maxime Van Cleven The ‘Götheborg of Sweden,’ the largest ocean-going sailing ship in the world, is currently docked in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) where it will spend the upcoming winter, reports Catalan News. The ship will stay in the Catalan capital…

BIOMICs group of the University of the Basque Country, Spain, (UPV/EHU) has investigated the percentage of RNA methylation in cells related to breast cancer in order to come up with new therapeutic targets in the future. The results show that RNA methylation…

On 3 November, the University of Barcelona (UB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) will host a university simulation of the United Nations Annual Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP27), organised together with PRIMA (a scientific innovation programme…