The BiSKY Team team, belonging to the Bilbao School of Engineering, has achieved a significant milestone in breaking the sound barrier with the successful launch of their HERMES rocket at the military base in Zaragoza last December. This achievement marks a before and after in the history of the UPV/EHU team (Basque Public University) and…
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…
The NEIKER technology centre, together with other European agents, has participated in the development of the ClimAlert digital platform for predicting water-related climate risks. This tool is already accessible and will contribute to more efficient public-private water management and to preventing soil erosion due to climate change. The initiative aims to achieve the objectives set…
The VII Young Researchers Awards are an initiative by the AstraZeneca Foundation under the motto of «People who change lives», to support the growth and consolidation of young scientific talent in Spain. The molecular and cellular underpinnings of intercellular communication in deadly prostate cancer are the focus of research led by CIC bioGUNE and researcher…
The Basque Country produces the first renewable hydrogen thanks to a 2.5 MW electrolyser located at Petronor that supplies the Energy Intelligence Center, as well as the company’s new offices at the Ezkerraldea-Meatzaldea Technology Park in Abanto Zierbena. (Autor: Elda Campos Lavín) In addition, this renewable hydrogen will also be used in the first buses…
Given that 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water, with 97% coming from the seas and oceans, it seems reasonable to believe that marine energies are here to stay in this decarbonisation scenario. However, we often refer to offshore wind energy, which is the most prominent in the field, but we must take…