The Tekniker technology center has pioneered the creation, production, and validation of a groundbreaking prototype: a wind turbine specifically engineered to harness the unique environmental conditions on the red planet for the European Space Agency (ESA). Addressing the pivotal question of whether Martian winds can be transformed into electrical energy, this initiative by Tekniker, a…
The Public University of Navarra (UPNA), in collaboration with the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), is leading a pioneering research that uncovers the first metabolic pathway responsible for the production of nitric oxide (NO) in plants from amino acids, highlighting the importance of oxymes, a type of chemical compounds, in this process. Recently published…
The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is actively engaged in the inaugural reconstruction of the genomic history of the first millennium in the Balkan Peninsula. The research has unveiled that the Balkans served as a frontier region of ancient Rome, exhibiting a cosmopolitan character comparable to the imperial center. Furthermore, the study indicates that…
Conducted under the leadership of Ikerbasque Research Professor Shira Knafo at the Molecular Cognition Laboratory, a groundbreaking study, recently published in the esteemed journal Nature Molecular Psychiatry, has unveiled a significant correlation between anxiety disorders and the brain receptor TACR3, as well as testosterone levels. The research involved collaboration with the University of the Basque…
Marta Macho, editor of the digital space Mujeres con Ciencia of the Chain in Scientific Culture, has been awarded the Women in Science Award in the category of Divulgation by the magazine Muy Interesante. (Autor: Elda Campos Lavín) This award was presented at a ceremony during the Science Fest event on 18 November, now in…
The journal Nature has released a research examining the trend of invertebrate diversity and organisation in rivers and how these organisms respond and evolve to environmental stressors. The study is based on data collected from river systems in 22 European countries between 1969 and 2020. (Autor: Elda Campos Lavín) The University of the Basque Country’s…
The aim of a new study by the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in Donostia, in collaboration with the Donostia University Hospital and the Biogipuzkoa Health Research Institute (IIS Biogipuzkoa), is to find the origin of prosody (the ability to interpret and distinguish the intonation of anger, joy, exclamations or questions) and…
In the field of energy, Professor Michel Armand is the most influential researcher in the Basque Country overall and among all of Spain’s researchers. In the field of mechanical engineering, on the other hand, the most influential researcher in the Basque Country is Elena Palomo, the Ikerbasque Professor and head of the Scientific Direction of…
His company, Rezon.ai, aims to add «explainability» to existing artificial intelligence systems. (Autor: Elda Campos Lavín) Forbes magazine has included Javier Viaña (Bilbao, 1995) in its latest list of the 30 people under the age of 30 who are generating the most impact in the world in the science category. Viaña, 28, is an industrial…
The basque scientist Mercedes Maroto-Valer, director of the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) and deputy director of Global Sustainability at Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom, won the Net-Zero Industries Award in the category of ‘Innovative Woman’ this Friday at a ceremony held in the framework of the United Nations Climate Change Conference…