On the occasion of March 8, International Women’s Day, the SATDI has prepared a new special video to once again join the conversation about equality within our own environment. The piece brings together several members of the service and includes a small novelty compared to previous years: in addition to female technicians, male technicians from [...]
Woman petting a cat A recent study published in the journal Science and led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute together with the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Bern suggests that the domestic cat could be a key piece to better understand breast cancer, especially the more aggressive forms. Researchers have noted that many [...]
A research team from the Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Center (CNIC) and the University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid has developed a new technique that allows for the repair of mechanical heart valves without resorting to open-heart surgery. The study, published in the European Heart Journal, describes a less invasive alternative for people with this type [...]
Foto: NASA/JPL A new discovery by NASA’s Perseverance rover has caught scientists’ interest: a rock on Mars dubbed “Cheyava Falls” shows unusual leopard-like spots and mineral veins that may offer clues about ancient life on the Red Planet. The rock was found in July 2024 in the Jezero crater, specifically in the area of the ancient [...]
Several stages of the restoration of Alex Kachkine’s work When Alex Kachkine raised his hand at an online auction, he had no idea he was buying a wounded gem of Flemish art. The canvas, a 15th-century Adoration of the Magi, arrived with the Virgin’s face almost erased and layers of dirt obscuring the scene. For a [...]
Last Monday, June 9, 2025, we celebrated the II SATDI Conference on Coexistence, Communication and Dissemination on the Orihuela Campus (Desamparados). In this second edition, we managed to gather around 60 colleagues from different areas spread across the four campuses that the university has throughout the province. The event was a great success both in [...]
On Monday, June 2, 2025, the Basic Course on Biosafety in Laboratories took place at the Institute for Research, Development and Innovation in Health Biotechnology (IDiBE) on the Elche campus. This essential training initiative is aimed at technical and research staff working in the fields of biotechnology and biomedicine at the University. The course was [...]
Riotinto mining park (Huelva). Photo: Ramón Perucho An international team of scientists from the universities of Oxford, Durham and Toronto have identified huge reserves of natural hydrogen in the Earth’s continental crust, accumulated over more than a billion years. This finding, published in the journal Nature, suggests that these reserves could supply the planet’s energy needs [...]
Photo: Torrent City Council The Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) has deployed LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology in collaboration with Torrent City Council to assess and mitigate the damage caused by the recent DANA. This tool, which uses laser pulses to generate high-precision topographic maps, has been essential in analyzing gully conditions and planning immediate [...]
An international team of scientists has identified a series of fossil specimens in the Turkana Lake basin (Kenya), which reveal the coexistence of two human species for 1.5 million years. These markings, attributed to Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, suggest a more complex evolutionary scenario than is currently possible. Photo: Kevin Hatala The analysis of the undertakings [...]
