From a circular economy approach, a nasal plug to treat nosebleeds and which displays qualities that surpass those of the best plugs currently available on the market has been developed by the UPV/EHU’s NanoBioCel and BIOMAT groups (University of the Basque…

The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has called the MidCat gas pipeline project that could unite Africa to Europe via Catalonia “nonsense.” In a press conference on energy measures on Monday afternoon, the leader said there is “no evidence” of a need…

The Minister of Economy and Business of Andorra, Jordi Gallardo, and the Secretary of State for Economy of Andorra, Eric Bartolome, presented this Thursday a bill on measures for the self-employed. The modification consists in equating some of the rights…

Across Spain, the number of jobless workers in the country is 2,924,240. The unemployment increased by 40,428 people compared with July, 1.4% more. Unemployment rose in Catalonia in August for the second month in a row, with 9,554 new jobseekers, 2.8% more…

Several departments in the south of France have identified autochthonous cases of dengue fever since mid-August. This disease that the tiger mosquito transmits causes in particular high fever and muscle pain. A patient has been identified in the Alpes-Maritimes…

The Spanish government’s decree law to save energy has come into force this Wednesday, forcing many businesses to limit their air conditioning to a low of 27°C in the summer, while the limits in winter will be set to 19°C. This measure is intended to reduce…

Catalonia’s main highways, AP-7 and AP-2, will receive an economic boost from the government of Spain during the next seven years, as the country’s transport minister Raquel Sánchez announced on Friday morning during a visit to Barcelona. Both roads are managed…

One by one, the outdoor lights that stores had left on are extinguished. It’s one small but symbolic step in a giant leap of energy saving that Europe is trying to make as it rushes to wean itself off natural gas and oil from Russia so factories aren’t forced…

A team of international experts, renowned for having debunked several black hole discoveries, identified a stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy near the Milky Way. The discovery is now published in an article on Nature Astronomy…

The Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in Barcelona (Spain, Catalonia) is constantly monitoring the water situation in the territory, and on Wednesday the bureau cautioned of possible restrictions in Barcelona during September. The agency expects to declare a drought…

The unemployment rate in Catalonia (Spain) in the second quarter of 2022 dropped below 10% for the first time since 2008. At 9.29%, almost an entire percentage point lower than a year earlier, there are 360,500 people out of work and a 14-year high of over…

Imagine a tiny vehicle, a nanocar (one million times smaller than a millimetre), equipped with a magnetic structure that allows it to be controlled and steered by means of magnetic fields. Let’s imagine that we can insert this car into the human body and…

Somorrostro beach in Barcelona (Spain, Catalonia) was closed off on Wednesday evening after an unusual object police feared could be a Civil War explosive was found. The item, as was revealed on Thursday evening by Spain’s Guardia Civil after restricting…

The third week of the Tour de France opens with a transition stage of 178.5 kilometres to Foix (Occitania, France). The town in the foothills of the Pyrenees has been the end station of successful breakaways on several occasions. This century has seen three…

Known as a “solraig” in Catalan language, an endangered shortfin mako shark was spotted off the Mediterranean Sea, Costa del Garraf, south of Barcelona (Spain, Catalonia), on July 3. According to the Cetacean Association, mako sharks are targets of industrial…

Foto: UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country The study was through a partnership between scientists from the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Community (Spain) and the Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive (CEFE-CNRS) in Montpellier (Occitania, France).…

Bassella Motorcycle Museum (Spain, Catalonia, Lleida province) welcomed German designer Hans Muth and painter Raul Contreras. The visit took place last Saturday, July 2, as part of the organization of the current temporary exhibition “Motorcycles: Art and…

According to RACC drivers association survey, cyclists of Catalonia (Spain) reject using same lanes as buses and e-scooters. This is one of the main takeaways of a survey conducted by the RACC drivers association, which took the opinion of 800 cyclists. The…

Planning a road trip over the summer holidays is becoming more and more complicated with fuel prices on the rise. But Catalan residents are lucky: Spain’s cheapest petrol station is located in inland Catalonia. Catalan company BonÀrea has Spain’s lowest diesel…

From July 1, 2022, tourists who wish to spend the night in the hotels of Andorra (Pyrenees) must pay a tax depending on the type of accommodation. Thus, the amount is three euros per person per night in a five-star hotel, two euros in a four-star hotel, 1.5…