Science Chronicles

A few months ago a piece of news echoed through the different media in Europe. Facebook, now known as Meta, and led by its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, threatened to leave Europa by closing most of its services (including the famous Instagram platform). Although the population, in general, considered a risk that this technological giant would leave the European market, for the most expert, this statement was considered a very unbelievable threat.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been promising to revolutionize the world for many years but this revolution is taking longer than expected…

Can modern medicine alter your DNA? And if so, is that necessarily a bad thing? Let us talk gene therapy.

We know that life on Earth flourishes everywhere, for every crack, even in the most adverse conditions, life finds a way to breakthrough. But, as far as we know, that only happens on Earth. We do not know if our planet is a rarity, a cosmic anomaly, or if, on the contrary, life is not a coincidence but a consequence, and this, whenever it can, appears.

Many different disciplines are focused on how to ensure a future that guarantees food security while reducing the environmental impacts of agricultural activity. In short, we are looking at how to make agriculture sustainable.

A growing problem in an ageing society

Aída García explains all you need to know about the Nobel Prize in Physiology of 2021 to David Julius y Ardem Patapoutian in a short comic.

This blog post reflects on the extension of Spanish as a language of science.

An opinion article about the value of getting vaccinated in the Covid19 era.

Nobel Prizes are awarded each year to personalities who have made a crucial contribution in bringing benefits to humanity. The relevance of women in these awards has increased over time parallelly with social changes. There is still a long way to go to fill in the current gender gap.

Have you heard of the Recovery Plan for Europe? Do you know what it consists of? In this post you will find all related information about the three online seminars that CEBE organized, between September and November 2020, to announce the set of initiatives that emerged within the Recovery Plan for Europe in the areas of science, innovation and industry, as well as to analyse the consequences of the health and social crisis caused by the pandemic in terms of mobility and employment.

The topic of transgenic food is currently one of the most controversial in the field of science, and the debate around it involves the health of human beings, as well as the interests of farmers and companies in the agricultural and biotechnology industry. In this post I explain what they are and why they are not dangerous to health.

How many times, due to catching a cold or the flu in those winter days, have we approached our "medicine cabinet" and taken an aspirin, ibuprofen or a frenadol to relieve its associated discomfort. Have you ever wondered how did that medicine you are taking get to your house? Sure, you bought it at the pharmacy…But how does that product reach the market? In this post, we are going to explain the hard life of medicines and the stages that they have to go through in clinical trials so that you can get better from the living room of your house, the typical winter couch day of a sofa, flick, blanket and… a bad flu!

As part of the event series «Girls and Women in Science», past March 6th CEBE organized a round table «Towards gender equality in science: are we on the right track?». This blog post dives through and deepens into the main topics discussed during this roundtable, which I had the pleasure to moderate.

Questions discussed during the roundtable: "Towards gender equality in science: are we on the right track?"

Question discussed during the roundtable: "Towards gender equality in science: are we on the right track?"

Question discussed during the roundtable: "Towards gender equality in science: are we on the right track?"

Question discussed during the roundtable: "Towards gender equality in science: are we on the right track?"

Question discussed during the roundtable: "Towards gender equality in science: are we on the right track?"