Dr. Marina Martínez, geologist and researcher at the Department of Geology of the UAB, gave a lecture on the importance of the Moon for life on Earth entitled "From Apollo to Artemis: Why do we return to the Moon?". Based on...
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...
The constituents of dark matter remain unknown, but primordial black holes and their evaporation products are interesting candidates. IFAE and King’s College London researchers have searched signatures of these black holes in gravitational...
Department of Chemistry researcher Albert Rimola has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the ERC, which recently expanded the number of grants awarded to include 17 more projects. Rimola will be working on the QUANTUMGRAIN project, whose aim is to reveal the chemistry of interstellar
Dark matter and dark energy, in case they exist, would contribute to 96% of the universe's total energy, but no one knows their authentic nature and even less, how they interact. Lecturer of the Department of Physics Diego Pavon recently published, alongside other authors, a review ...
In the 1930s, it was confirmed that the distance between galaxies was increasing, and at the end of the century it was observed that the rate of expansion of the universe was accelerating as well. This remains a theoretical problem, and there has been no consensus on any of...
In October 2003, several representatives of European institutions and a group of scientists inaugurated the first MAGIC telescope. MAGIC was realized by a collaboration of few European institutes, mostly Spanish, Italian and German. It was...
