Category archives: Science

The oldest known jellyfish

The oldest known jellyfish

Biology

By Invited Researcher

Author: Ramón Muñoz-Chápuli has been Professor of Animal Biology in the University of Málaga until his retirement. He has investigated for forty years in the fields of developmental biology and animal evolution. Cnidarians (corals, hydrozoans and jellyfish) are fascinating animals. Despite their primitive organization, lacking a brain or muscles, they are efficient predators of much […]

Sahara space rock upends assumptions about the early Solar System

Sahara space rock upends assumptions about the early Solar System

GeosciencesPlanetary Science

By Invited Researcher

Sahara Author: Evgenii Krestianinov, PhD candidate, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria. On close inspection, the rocks turned out to be from outer space: lumps […]

Impact of social networks on adolescents

Impact of social networks on adolescents

PsychologySociology

By Invited Researcher

Social networks Author: Martha R. Villabona works at Subdirección General de Cooperación Territorial e Innovación Educativa of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, where she coordinates the area of multiple literacies. The American Psychological Association (APA) states that the use of social networks is either harmful or beneficial for young people . In […]

Light-controled deracemization

Light-controled deracemization

CatalysisChemistry

By César Tomé

Just like our hands, certain organic molecules relate to each other like an image and its reflection – a phenomenon that chemists call “chirality” or “handedness”. The two mirror images of the same molecule, namely both enantiomers, often possess different biological properties. This is key, for example, for drug discovery, as many times only one […]

T-cell acute leukaemia exhibits dynamic interactions with bone marrow microenvironment

T-cell acute leukaemia exhibits dynamic interactions with bone marrow microenvironment

Biomedicine

By Invited Researcher

T-cell Author: Marta Irigoyen is a postdoctoral researcher at CIC bioGUNE T-ALL is an aggressive malignancy which results from the leukemic transformation of T-cell progenitors into tumor cells. It is widely accepted that complex interactions between T-ALL cells and their surrounding microenvironment contribute to disease and may regulate quiescence, survival and self-renewal of cancer cells […]

Validity of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism for Ising domains

Validity of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism for Ising domains

DIPC Quantum SystemsPhysicsQuantum physics

By DIPC

Phase transitions and their related phenomena lie at the core of modern statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. At equilibrium, an intriguing aspect of second-order phase transitions is that systems with distinct order parameters can be described by the same set of static critical exponents, a hallmark of universality. Thomas Kibble’s research on phase transitions […]