In a piece of work carried out by the Carbohydrate Metabolism Research Team of the Institute of Agrobiotechnology (a centre jointly owned by the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre, the Spanish National Scientific Research ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Jun 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

Although the Bechstein's bat is regarded as a Euro-Siberian species, a study by researchers in the UPV/EHU's Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology has revealed that the historical transformation of part of its ...

Biology - Ecology

May 27, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker-Tecnalia, has developed a new method for the early detection of the diseases mildew, powdery mildew and botrytis in vines. The new methodology based on ...

Biology - Biotechnology

May 09, 2013 not rated yet 0

A team led by José Manuel Zarzuelo, Professor of Applied Economics, has applied the co-operative Game Theory to calculating motorway toll charges. The results of the study have been published in the specialised journal European Jo ...

Technology - Other

Apr 30, 2013 2 / 5 (1) 0

CIC marGUNE, the Cooperative Research Centre for High-Performance Manufacture, is coordinating a line of research on cryogenic machining for developing the safety of parts for the aeronautic sector. This machining method ...

Technology - Engineering

Apr 24, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker-Tecnalia, has created four new potato clones which are characterised by their high antioxidant content, their good production both in ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 24, 2013 not rated yet 0

In order to improve a simulation designed to study the evolution of the solar system through time, numerical mathematical methods have been developed at the Computing Faculty of the University of the Basque ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Apr 11, 2013 not rated yet 0

Jose Ramon Sarasua and Aitor Larrañaga, researchers in the materials engineering department of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, have been studying new materials or implants that are of interest ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Apr 02, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

Spanish astronomers with the UPV/EHU's Planetary Science Group have published, online in the journal Nature Geoscience, a study of the atmospheric vortex of the south pole of Venus, a huge whirlwind the si ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

A team of researchers from the UPNA-Public University of Navarre is leading the ENEIDA project, due to end this year and which aims to tackle the technological changes needed to create more energy-efficient and more environmentally-friendly ...

Technology - Engineering

Mar 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

The Centre for Applied Research Tecnalia Research & Innovation has through its FIK initiative designed Varstiff, a smart textile material that can adopt different shapes; when vacuum is applied to it, it turns rigid once ...

Technology - Engineering

Mar 06, 2013 not rated yet 1

Researchers from CICnanoGUNE and the University of Cambridge have developed a new technology in the magnetic cooling of chips based on the straining of materials. Compared with the current technologies, this advance enables ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 20, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0

In his PhD thesis, Leonardo de Maeztu-Reinares is proposing 3D reconstruction algorithms; they are on a par with the results of the best available techniques and can be executed more rapidly on a computer. His work is based ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Feb 15, 2013 4.9 / 5 (8) 0 |

The Ph.D. thesis of Aingeru Remiro-Eguskiza, a chemical engineer of the University of the Basque Country, deals with the quest for a process to produce hydrogen from bio-oil that has a lower impact on the environment than ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 13, 2013 not rated yet 0

With their ultra short X-ray flashes, free-electron lasers offer the opportunity to film atoms in motion in complicated molecules and in the course of chemical reactions. However, for monitoring this motion, ...

Physics - General Physics

Dec 03, 2012 not rated yet 0