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3Q Joan Tronto

Joan C. Tronto, emeritus professor of the City University of New York and the University of Minnesota, is one of the greatest exponents of the ethics of care and democracy. Numerous disciplines draw on her feminist reflections to carry out critical analyses of the social, political and economic...

3Q Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson is professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester and visiting professor at Uppsala University (Sweden). Formerly he held the position of Zennström professor (in Uppsala) and was director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (UK). He engages widely with...

3Q Pep Canadell

Head of research at the Australian National Science Agency (CSIRO) AND executive director of the Global Carbon Project (GCP), organisation made up of dozens of international scientists from more than 90 institutions that has been providing detailed information on natural and anthropogenic carbon dioxide sources and sinks...

3Q Raymond Wheeler

Plant physiologist and senior scientist at NASA's Exploration Research and Technology Directorate at Kennedy Space Center, Raymond Wheeler has led the advanced life support and plant-based research groups at the US space agency.

NEO: The Moon as a Gravitational Wave Detector

Diego Blas, distinguished researcher "Beatriz Galindo" from the UAB Department of Physics and IFAE proposes to use the small deviations of the orbits of binary systems, such as the Earth and the Moon, as a natural detector of gravitational waves. This would measure a...

3Q Margarita del Val

The prestigious virologist and immunologist at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has had a great scientific and informative relevance on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection and the vaccines that have been developed during the pandemic.

NEO: The memory of fear: opposite effects according to sex

A research from the Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB), conducted with a drug capable of modifying the memory of fear, shows for the first time that the neural processes and behaviours related to the formation of memory can be opposite between male...

NEO: Pyrennean Ecosystems During the Last Glaciations

The archaeological digs conducted at "La Grotte de la Carrière", at the Réseau Lachambre karstic complex help to understand the changes undergone by the Pyrennean ecosystems during the last glacial cycles. The palaeontological research...

NEO: Neurons and Symptoms: advances in Leigh Syndrome

At the Institute for Neurosciences, a team of researchers directed by Dr Albert Quintana has identified two groups of neurons involved in Leigh Syndrome. They have also been able to identify the role of these neurons in the manifestation of this mitochondrial disorder...

3Q: Lisa Randall

Professor of theoretical physics at Harvard University, Randall has linked her studies with philosophy, the humanities and music. The UAB awarded an honorary doctorate to Lisa Randall last march.She is also a well-known scientific disseminator, author of books like "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding...