A drug to activate the resistance of crop plants to drought. This is what has been developed by a team from the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants (IBMCP), a joint center of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Spanish…

The University of Deusto, as part of the UNIC European Alliance, is organizing the 3rd edition of the UNIC CityLabs Festival, which is held annually. An event that aims to bring together universities and cities to share experiences, common challenges and…

Laboratorios Farmacéuticos ROVI and ReTree are collaborating to plant ROVI’s Forest in the Madrid Sierra. It is an initiative that forms part of ROVI’s carbon footprint reduction strategy and group employees have participated by activating the 2,000 specimens…

The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023, annual global ranking among the most reputable in the world, was unveiled on March 22nd, 2023. Once again this year, École des Ponts ParisTech is ranked in the “Engineering & Technology” broad subject, with…

The Linguistic Consortium of Catalonia, Spain, (Consorci per la Normalización Lingüística, CPNL) increased by 11% the number of places in Catalan language courses in the third semester compared to the third semester of 2022. In total, almost 29,000 places…

More than 75 university leaders from 16 countries convened at Keio University in Japan in march and called on G7 leaders to invest in peace and security education at all levels, incorporate the latest research into policy on peace and security, diversify…

Monserrat‘s Escolania choir (Spain, Catalonia) will create a mixed group for the first time in its almost 1,000 years of history to include female voices. According to Catalan News,  this is a “very important” step for the choir, and it will be formed of…

A study carried out by the URV’s SeesLab research group (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) has shown for the first time that machine learning algorithms do not always succeed in finding interpretable models from data. Machine learning is behind many daily decisions.…

Tonight, about 2,000 people have watched the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals Andorra 2023, which took place at Soldeu, at the foot of the Avet slope. The show once again turned Avet, as it already happened in the 2019, into a giant screen and mixed video mapping…

The Nervous System Gene Therapy (UAB) research group and the VHIR Multiple Sclerosis Center of Catalonia are developing a gene therapy capable of reducing the inflammatory response in early and advanced stages of the disease. The results obtained in animal…

Grifols (Spain), one of the world’s leading producers of plasma-derived medicines, today announced a global collaboration and licensing agreement with Selagine Inc, a company focused on developing novel therapeutics for ocular diseases, to treat dry eye disease…

Through its joint research laboratory Kostarisk, University of Pau (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France) and Pays de l’Adour is participating in a major project to monitor and protect the coastline of St-Jean-de-Luz, in partnership with the Basque Country Agglomeration…

Are food additives toxic? Is eating fruit at the end of a meal fattening? Are ecological eggs safer and healthier than those conventionally produced? Does coconut oil reduce cholesterol? In the field of nutrition and food, finding out the veracity of a potentially…

Louis Vuitton opens a new cultural destination in Paris, France. Celebrating the 160 years of creative exchanges that have taken place in tandem with Louis Vuitton’s innovative evolution, LV DREAM invites visitors to immerse themselves in the Maison’s historic…

In an article published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Valrose Biology Institute (Université Côte d’Azur/CNRS/Inserm) have presented a tool that was developed to allow for instant and reversible remote control of pain-related animal behavior…

The Center for Research Support in Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology (CQAB) of the Universidad de Alcalá is working with the biopharmaceutical company PharmaMar in a trial with the molecule Plitidepsin, which is showing great preclinical evidence of efficiency…

A research team carried out the analysis of iron nanofibers and revealed its special magnetic properties. This work, published in Nanotechnology, paves the way for new developments in MEMS MEMS, the invisible technologies in our daily lives What do smartphones…

Corporación Financiera Alba reported a net consolidated result of €439 million in 2022, compared to €303 million in the previous year. This improvement is mainly due to the positive performance of financial investments recorded at fair value, as well as the…