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The University of Barcelona (Catalan: Universitat de Barcelona; Spanish: Universidad de Barcelona) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain.

Using swarms of tiny autonomous tiny drones to find gas leaks in buildings and on industrial sites

Using marine seagrass to catch and remove plastics from the sea

Detecting toxic gases in emergencies using nanodrones

Detecting dangerous gases in collapsed buildings due earthquakes or explosions and identifying the presence of victims in places which are hard to access are some action scenarios of SNAV (Smelling Nano Aerial Vehicle), a nanodrone designed and created by the researchers Santiago Marco and Javier Burgués, from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona and the Institute

Detecting toxic gases in emergencies using nanodrones

Neuroengineering enables the reproduction of the complex brain-like functions of segregation and integration of brain circuits – in vitro

One of the most important and surprising traits of the brain is its ability to reconfigure dynamically the connections to process and respond properly to stimuli. Researchers from Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) and the University of Barcelona, using neuroengineering tools, have created in vitro neural circuits that reproduce the capacity of segregation and integration of

Neuroengineering enables the reproduction of the complex brain-like functions of segregation and integration of brain circuits – in vitro

What is the immersive news experience really all about?

A virtual reality scenario called “We Wait” gives people an immersive experience of the plight of refugees waiting to be picked up by a boat on a shore in Turkey to be illegally taken to Europe, crossing a dangerous stretch of sea. This was based on BBC news reporting of the refugee situation, but deliberately

What is the immersive news experience really all about?

Could magnetic refrigeration using magnetic materials in magnetic fields meet global cooling needs?

As a result of climate change, population growth, and rising expectations regarding quality of life, energy requirements for cooling processes are growing much faster worldwide than for heating. Another problem that besets today’s refrigeration systems is that most coolants cause environmental and health damage. A novel technology could provide a solution: refrigeration using magnetic materials

Could magnetic refrigeration using magnetic materials in magnetic fields meet global cooling needs?

Moores Law could still be in play with new valleytronics discovery relevant to neuromorphic computing

A team of physicists has uncovered properties of a category of magnetic waves relevant to the development of neuromorphic computing–an artificial intelligence system that seeks to mimic human-brain function. “As we continue to pioneer novel computing paradigms, understanding the characteristics and promise of their building blocks is essential,” explains Andrew Kent, a physicist at New

Moores Law could still be in play with new valleytronics discovery relevant to neuromorphic computing

Could virtual reality help empathy grow?

Researchers from IDIBAPS and the University of Barcelona developed a virtual reality system so that men who committed a domestic violence crime can get into the victim’s shoes. The study, published in Scientific Reports, shows that these violent people have a lack of emotional recognition and that virtual experience improves the participant’s perception of emotions.

Could virtual reality help empathy grow?

The first light-activated drug for the treatment of pain

A team of the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona has participated in the design of the first light-activated drug –the JF-NP-26, for the treatment of pain, according to a research with animal models published in the journal eLife. The new study is conducted by the teams led by Professor Francisco Ciruela, from

The first light-activated drug for the treatment of pain

Virtual bodyswapping diminishes people’s negative biases about others

What if you could, for a moment, have the body of someone of a different race, age, or sex? Would that change the way you feel about yourself or the way that you stereotype different social groups? In a paper published online December 15 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers explain

Virtual bodyswapping diminishes people’s negative biases about others

Researchers use real data rather than theory to measure the cosmos

For the first time researchers have measured large distances in the Universe using data, rather than calculations related to general relativity. A research team from Imperial College London and the University of Barcelona has used data from astronomical surveys to measure a standard distance that is central to our understanding of the expansion of the

Researchers use real data rather than theory to measure the cosmos

A New Family of Antibiotics – A Marine Compound With Antibiotic Properties

At very small doses this compound inhibits the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Bacterial resistance to drugs leads pharmaceutical labs to be in constant search for new antibiotics to treat the same diseases. For the last thirty years, the sea bottom has yielded a wealth of substances with properties of interest to the pharmaceutical industry. Isolated

A New Family of Antibiotics – A Marine Compound With Antibiotic Properties

Virtual reality ‘beaming’ technology transforms human-animal interaction

Using cutting-edge virtual reality technology, researchers have ‘beamed’ a person into a rat facility allowing the rat and human to interact with each other on the same scale. Published today in PLOS ONE, the research enables the rat to interact with a rat-sized robot controlled by a human participant in a different location. At the

Virtual reality ‘beaming’ technology transforms human-animal interaction

An immunosuppressive drug could delay the onset of neurodegenerative diseases

Rapamycin, a drug used to prevent rejection in transplants, could delay the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s Rapamycin, a drug used to prevent rejection in transplants, could delay the onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This is the main conclusion of a study published in the Nature in which

An immunosuppressive drug could delay the onset of neurodegenerative diseases

Cloaking breakthrough makes objects magnetically undetectable

Practical uses include protecting pacemakers from MRIs and hiding military craft. Researchers from Slovakia and Spain have created an “invisibility” — actually a small cylinder — that makes itself and the object inside it undetectable to machines such as MRI scanners and airport security sensors. The research team reported its finding March 22 in the journal

Cloaking breakthrough makes objects magnetically undetectable

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Warning issued over Barcelona 'sacrifice zone' amid major change for tourists
The Spanish tourism industry is facing a crisis and Barcelona is leading the charge in a bid to limit the number of tourists that visit the city every year. Majorca and the Canary Islands have also se ...
Barcelona 'becoming sacrifice zone' as tourists warned of major Spanish capital change
A professor has warned that Barcelona is becoming a "sacrifice zone" as the tourism crisis in Europe worsens, after the Spanish city made a significant change to its tourism board slogan ...
The creator of the ghost summit of Nobel winners also made up a research center in Africa
Alexis Roig, described by a former colleague as ‘a megalomaniac with a spectacular imagination,’ managed to sneak into a few outlets a bogus story about the inauguration in Kigali (Rwanda) of an insti ...
Barcelona 'becoming sacrifice zone' as Spanish capital makes major tourism change
Barcelona has been at the centre of anti-tourism movements this year as cities around Europe try to combat the problem of overtourism ...
Reconstruction of the environmental conditions and cultivation practices when agriculture first emerged in Western Europe
Professor Josep Lluís Araus, from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Barcelona and member of Agrotechnio, CERCA Centre for Research in Agrotechnology. Around 7,000 years ago, the first ...

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Could brain parasites help treat cognitive disorders?
The study – led by the University of Glasgow in collaboration with Tel Aviv University and an international team of researchers, and published in Nature Microbiology – has also made the first ...
Scientists Reconstructed a 52,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth’s DNA. Resurrection May Be Next.
But a new international study, spearheaded by researchers at Rice University, have successfully uncovered a ... Instead of containing the usual 100 base pairs, this chromosomal discovery is upwards of ...
Oldest Human Fossils in Europe Discovered: 1.3 Million-Year-Old Remains Challenge Previous Migration Theories
Spain's Orce region holds Europe's oldest human remains, dating 1.3 million years ago, indicating migration through the Strait of Gibraltar. Researchers may have solved one of the most widely debated ...
'A point of no return:' Why Europe has become an epicentre for anti-tourism protests this summer
Anti-tourism protests have been sweeping across Europe this summer, with demonstrations taking place in the Netherlands, Greece, and of course, Spain.
New patterns in cancer genetics point at tumor suppressor genes as potential therapeutic targets
Cancer is caused by genetic changes that occur in our cells over time. There are two main types of changes, namely somatic mutations, which are alterations in the DNA sequence, and copy number ...