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 [...]
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Boy playing a popular video game on a Playstation console. Source: Vika_Glitter on Pixabay A recent study led by Dr. Hiroyuki Egami, a behavioral scientist at Nihon University (Tokyo), has revealed that video games can have positive effects on mental health, reducing distress and improving life satisfaction. Published in Nature Human Behavior, this work differs from [...]
New course and new job opportunities in sight. The SATDI, in collaboration with the UMH Occupational Observatory, has launched a new offer of paid internships for students. Specifically, we are talking about four offers that are distributed among various work areas within the service, covering almost all of the university’s campuses. They are the following: A [...]
A team of researchers at Stanford University has made a surprising breakthrough by developing a liquid that makes mouse tissue transparent. Published in the journal Science, this discovery promises to revolutionize the field of biomedical research by allowing clearer and more detailed visualization of internal organs and tissues without the need for invasive procedures. Dr. Guosong [...]
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A team of researchers from the University of California has discovered a maternal brain hormone, called CCN3, that has the potential to transform the treatment of physical illnesses. Published in the prestigious journal Nature, this troball shows that CCN3 can significantly increase bone mass. The CCN3 hormone will be identified as a key factor in bone [...]
