El "petróleo del futuro" llaman al litio, un metal estratégico cada vez más valorado y que está presente en grandes cantidades en Argentina. La mayor parte en salares, aunque una nueva fuente promete aumentar su extracción por la mejor calidad del litio: la roca.

Interview to Dr. Domenico Giustiniano, Principal Investigator of the SOCRATES project and a Research Associate Professor at IMDEA Networks Institute

A recent multicentre study confirms that anxiety and depression are independent risk factors for poor asthma control. A novel finding is that under specialist supervision, there were significantly improved levels of anxiety and depression, asthma control, and pulmonary function.

Scientists from IMDEA Nanociencia follow and operate one molecular shuttle-at-a-time, in real time, for several hundreds of cycles.

The Enterprise Europe Network is at this year’s Web Summit, Europe’s largest technology marketplace, to showcase real-life examples of how its services benefit innovative European businesses.

The researchers have developed a new protocol that can identify the presence of tumor cells in the organism that are not detected by other methods and thus allowing them to predict the risk of relapse in these patients.

Earlier detection of cardiovascular disease is a step closer thanks to the findings of a research team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) led by Francisco Sánchez-Madrid and Pilar Martín.

According to a report from UC3M and CODERE, people in Madrid spend close to 470 million euro on the Spanish Christmas Lottery, approximately 20 percent of the total. This is one of the figures highlighted by the "Yearbook of Gambling in Spain", a report recently presented by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and CODERE.

Wastewater treatment is no longer just about making water reusable. Researchers show how energy, nutrients and added value by-products can be extracted from wastewater.

The directors of 22 Spanish water research centers met recently at the University of Barcelona with the aim of exchanging information about their research areas and ongoing projects, as well as to detect synergies in the face of the constitution of a large scientific network on water issues.