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Research IBEC ICIQ

October 23, 2025

Scientists integrate micromotors and liquid marbles to study motion in confined spaces

Researchers from two BIST Community centres, ICIQ and IBEC, have designed a new soft system…

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Research CRG

October 20, 2025

“Dual feeding” strategy helps Mediterranean coral thrive in rising sea temperatures

An exceptional “dual feeding” strategy underlies a Mediterranean coral’s resilience to rising sea temperatures, according…

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Research IBEC

October 13, 2025

Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice using nanoparticles

An international team co-led by the BIST Community centre IBEC and the West China Hospital…

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Research IRB Barcelona

October 9, 2025

Smoking and biological sex shape healthy bladder tissue evolution, offering clues to cancer risk

A study published in Nature by researchers at the BIST Community centre IRB Barcelona and…

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Research IRB Barcelona

October 3, 2025

A key genetic safeguard works differently across tissues and individuals

A new study finds that the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway, a key mechanism responsible for…

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Research ICIQ

September 29, 2025

New organic dyes deliver record open-circuit voltage in dye-sensitised solar cells

BIST Community centre ICIQ and researchers from two Universities in China show how molecular design…

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Research ICN2

September 17, 2025

Salty Ice: a New Way to Generate Electricity in Extreme Conditions

Researchers at the BIST Community centre ICN2 have co-led a study showing that adding salt…

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Research IFAE

September 15, 2025

Ten years after the discovery, gravitational waves verify Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Area Theorem

Ten years ago, on September 14, 2015, LIGO observed the first gravitational waves from a…

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Research IRB Barcelona

September 5, 2025

New strategy to tackle obesity by activating brown fat

A research team from the BIST Community centre IRB Barcelona has found that Neuritin 1,…

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Research ICN2

August 27, 2025

Scientists Find that Ice Generates Electricity when Bent — a Clue to how Lightning Forms

A study co-led by the BIST Community centre ICN2 reveals that ice is a flexoelectric…

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Research IBEC

August 20, 2025

Human embryo implantation recorded in real time for the first time

Researchers at the BIST Community centre IBEC have recorded human embryo implantation in real time…

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Research ICFO ICN2

August 12, 2025

Twisted 2D Materials Enable a Breakthrough in Single-Photon Detection

While studying layered two-dimensional materials, researchers observed an anomaly—an unexpected transition in the system’s state…

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