The tecno-scientific winds of the XIXth century cointed new and sophisticated words: automobile, microphone, ampere, etc. The Royal Spanish Academy of the Spanish Language had to incorporate these new pieces into the machinery of the spanish language. Gloria Clavería studies the result of this effort: the 13th edition of the Dictionary. In his...
The melodram is a literary popular genre of the ends of the XIXth century. The work published by Montserrat Amores analyzes two histories of this type. This approach reveals that the intrigue and the descriptions obey to the ideological ideas of his authors.
Satellites silently observe natural phenomena that occur on our planet. Nevertheless, the images produced by mechanical eyes are not as reliable as we would wish. To alleviate the myopia that satellites suffer from, a team from the UAB has proposed a method of image fusion...
In the 80s the university hospital Vall d'Hebrón was the first hospital in Spain to carry out a liver transplant. Since then, the team of research doctors led by Dr. Carlos Margarit -who passed away recently-, has followed up the clinical course...
To facilitate the cancer pleural diagnosis doctors realize an exploration in the toraxic cavity, this method is called thoracoscopic. Nevertheless, medical investigators of the UAB have observed that this invasive technique has often been unnecessary. For that reason, they realized a analized this case.
Human activities have left his dark trace in the planet. Such is the case of the mining industry and his consequent soil contamination. In order to alleviate situations like this there exist several initiatives. The investigator of the UAB Gustavo Pérez has calibrated a complex system to measure the soil contamination, so that the...
In a recent expedition to Menorca, a team of anthropologists from the UAB Biological Anthropology Unit studied human remains from around 3000 years ago in a sepulchral cave, the Cova des Pas.
Einstein introduced into his equations a cosmological constant in order to explain a static universe. Who would have thought that some years later this same constant would help to deduce another small detail: the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe? A team of UAB...
Often technology has been inspired by processes that are observed in Nature. Such is the case of the electronic nose and tongue. These tools are called like this because they imitate the smell and the taste operation. Researchers use them to extract the composition of chemical solutions. A group of investigators of the UAB has developed a...
Although invisible to our eyes, the chemical processes determine the biological cycles in which we are all immersed. The knowledge of this microscopic world allows us to create applications for our daily life. The investigations on proton transference goes in this direction. In his doctoral dissertation, Ricard Casadesús analyzes these...
