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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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Research IBEC

July 29, 2025

Scientists create an artificial cell capable of navigating its environment using chemistry alone

Researchers at the BIST Community centre IBEC have created the world’s simplest artificial cell capable…

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Research IRB Barcelona

July 9, 2025

New approach to decoding mutational signatures improves prediction of prognosis in ovarian cancer

Researchers at the BIST Community centre IRB Barcelona and BRIC Copenhagen present a method that…

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Research IFAE

June 24, 2025

First images released from what will become the most complete “movie” of the night sky

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory launch a decade-long LSST survey of…

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Research ICN2

June 19, 2025

Innovative Clip-off Chemistry Enables Fast and Precise Production of Complex Molecules

Researchers at the BIST Community centre ICN2 have developed a novel strategy to obtain complex…

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Research CRG IBEC

June 16, 2025

Scientists map the first step in Alzheimer’s protein aggregation and discover clues for future therapies

A new large-scale study has mapped the first molecular events that drive the formation of…

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Research ICN2

May 27, 2025

ICN2 Researchers Discover Electric Vortices in Non-Polar Materials

An international study published in Nature Materials has revealed vortex-like structures in an antiferroelectric material…

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