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Follow a Live Planet Hunt!

ESO European Southern Observatory | 23.02.2019

A unique outreach campaign has been launched that will allow the general public to follow scientists from around the globe as they search for an Earth-like exoplanet around the closest star to us, Proxima…

An app to evaluate injury risk

UAM - mi+d | 16.02.2019

A sports scientist from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) has developed a Smartphone app which allows to measure ankle mobility (an important variable related to lower-limbs injury risk).

Will we be able to feed ourselves by 2050 without destroying the planet?

UPM - mi+d | 16.02.2019

We have the opportunity to sustainably feed the planet, but it is necessary to take effective measures.

Companies with more financial analysts produce more and better-quality patents

UC3M - mi+d | 15.02.2019

Long-term growth in profits depends significantly on firms’ investment in innovation activities. However, firms may not invest in innovation in an optimal way. Some distortions arise because the decisions…

Species 'hotspot' created by immigrant influx or evolutionary speed depending on climate

Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom SRUK | 09.02.2019

New research reveals that biodiversity 'hotspots' in the tropics produced new species at faster rates over the last 25 million years, but those in temperate regions are instead full of migrant species…

Climate change modifies the competitiveness between oak and beech

UPM - mi+d | 09.02.2019

Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid are participating in a project to determine how climate change modifies the natural dynamic of forests.

Ericsson hosts meeting of the European program 5G-EVE in Spain

IMDEA Networks Institute | 09.02.2019

Meeting includes a visit to the 5TONIC Lab, founded by Telefónica and IMDEA Networks Institute and of which Ericsson is a member, to showcase demos with application in various sectors. The program currently…

Can personality be measured?

UPM - mi+d | 09.02.2019

An international team of researchers has developed a new method to assess the intelligence and personality by analyzing neurophysiological data of the human brain.

Insulated molecular wires: the smallest electric power cord

Instituto IMDEA Nanociencia | 02.02.2019

A new supramolecular self-encapsulation strategy provides an effective route to construct stable light-emitting polymers for optoelectronic applications.

A newly discovered interaction between bacteria and immune cells protects the intestinal barrier

UCM - mi+d | 02.02.2019

Conditions such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, a poor diet, overuse of certain drugs and stress harm the intestinal barrier and cause inflammation.

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