University of Granada researchers have successfully manufactured self-compacting concrete using ash from the combustion of olive pruning residue pellets. Due to its plasticity and cohesion, this type of concrete ...

Technology - Engineering

May 02, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

Atmospheric contamination due to heavy metals is currently a severe problem of global proportions, with important repercussions in public health. However, this type of pollution is not a recent fact and can ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 30, 2013 4.6 / 5 (5) 0

Researchers from the University of Granada have patented a new system, based on placing modules as the foundations for building cheaper, inflatable hydraulic dams, which can be assembled and dismantled very ...

Technology - Engineering

Apr 16, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Researchers from Granada have managed to breed for the first time in captivity a marine animal known as the snakelocks anemone, (Anemonia sulcata), and have also begun breeding a species of sea cucumber (Sticophus ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

University of Granada researchers have developed a new statistical technique that enables an exhaustive analysis of all possible causes that increase the severity of a traffic accident. The research, based ...

Technology - Engineering

Apr 02, 2013 not rated yet 0

Researchers from the University of Granada and the Carlos III University of Madrid have patented a new method to measure the flow of motorized traffic that a specific street carries each day, by measuring ...

Technology - Engineering

Mar 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

The ancient Egyptians did not live in such good conditions and were not surrounded by such opulence as was thought up to now, but, rather, suffered from hunger and malnutrition, a whole range of infectious ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 07, 2013 3.8 / 5 (5) 0

According to his theory, bacteria that are non-resistant to antibiotics acquire said resistance accidentally because they take up the DNA of others that are resistant, due to the stress to which they are ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2

A group of researchers have designed a new fuzzy ontology-based system to help people in disagreement reach consensus. This system, which acts as a virtual moderator, is a step forward in the field on Artificial Intelligence. ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Feb 12, 2013 not rated yet 0

University of Granada researchers have developed a revolutionary data storage device in collaboration with the CEA-LETI lab at Grenoble (France), an institution of the Campus of International Excellence CEI ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Nov 26, 2012 2 / 5 (5) 3

University of Granada researchers have developed an artificial cerebellum (a biologically-inspired adaptive microcircuit) that controls a robotic arm with human-like precision. The cerebellum is the part of the human brain ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Jul 03, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

University of Granada researchers are working on the application of neural networks to develop a urban noise forecasting model, which would be very useful to people who is interested in buying a new house.

Technology - Engineering

Jun 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

University of Granada researchers have developed a 3D imaging system that scans 3D models of historical buildings using data obtained from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)–an aircraft without a human pilot onboard. This ...

Technology - Engineering

May 23, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

72.28 per cent of drug addict men admit to have consumed drugs to be able to have sexual relations and most of them (58%) choose cocaine to this purpose, the narcotic which increases the most sexual incapacitation. On the ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Mar 04, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

Researchers of the Catalonian Institute of Oncology (Spain) and the University of Granada (Spain) have discovered that extra virgin olive oil may help to combat breast cancer, according to a paper published in the last issue ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Feb 05, 2009 4.3 / 5 (3) 2