Public coffers receive €1 million a year thanks to Giovanna Roncador’s work with molecules to study cancer at one of the best research institutions in the world, CNIO. The case illustrates Spanish scientists’ struggles against entrenched bureaucracy and lack of support for entrepreneurship
An international expedition finds dozens of carcasses of skua, a scavenging bird, and shows that the disease is spreading across the planet’s southernmost continent. Hundreds of dead penguins were also found, although the presence of the virus in the bodies has not been confirmed
Geologist Juan Manuel García Ruiz has received more than $10 million to investigate the role of silica in the emergence of living beings
Juan Manuel Corchado, an expert in artificial intelligence at the University of Salamanca in Spain, falsely inflated his resume to boost his Google Scholar ranking
A panel of experts voted down a proposal to officially label the human age as a newly created era to reflect our impact on the planet. The president of the committee denounces ‘serious violations’ of the rules
The former professor at the Catholic University of Murcia asserts that he has never cheated in his life, but a dozen journals have already withdrawn 34 of his studies due to irregularities
A breakthrough experimental treatment has succeeded in permanently deactivating a bad cholesterol gene in mice, without modifying their DNA
The researcher has created mice with 100,000 human neurons embedded in their brain to accelerate the search for drugs against dementia
A macro-study, involving thousands of poor volunteers and other traditionally overlooked groups, reveals 275 million previously unknown genetic variants
An experiment with 1,000 people from the same city that began over a decade ago reveals the unknown persistent effects of tobacco on our immune responses
An expert on desertification who is highly critical of the Spanish scientific system, the ecologist recently won a $2.7 million European grant he’ll now have to delay or turn down entirely
Spanish scientist Patricia Casas shares her four-year battle with the Buruli ulcer. A new study suggests that mosquitoes transmit this neglected disease
Many researchers hold that thinking is separate from speech, but this expert rejects that notion. Now, his team is going to delve into the brains of people with psychosis in an $11 million project
Five people under the age of 55 have dementia after receiving growth hormones obtained from cadavers. Researchers emphasize that the disease is not contagious
The patience of a scientist, who has cultivated 75,000 generations of bacteria for 35 years, has paved the way for the discovery that it is possible to anticipate transformations in living beings
A study in mice reveals the surprising role that viral infections from millions of years ago play today
A group of Chinese researchers has perfected the technique for producing identical macaques but says that cloning people would be ‘completely unacceptable’
Catalan biologist Arnau Sebé Pedrós has received almost €4 million to start the cellular catalog of life on Earth
The Spanish biophysicist Eva Nogales has just received the $1.2 million Shaw Prize for revealing the atomic intricacies of human beings
The scientist is one of the star signings of Altos Labs, a multinational company with a $3-billion budget that aims to extend human’s health span
Four scientists from Barcelona have created the first map of the vulnerable sites of the KRAS gene, whose mutations, often associated with smoking, cause millions of tumors
The approval of the first DNA editing therapy opens the door to a revolution in the treatment of a multitude of diseases, such as cancer
A billion-dollar consortium has revealed for the first time the deep organization at play within a mammal’s thinking organ
Engineer María Passas Varo’s team reveals the causes of a strange electrical phenomenon, which draws spectral figures in storms
Following a scandal uncovered by EL PAÍS and involving fake affiliations, Saudi Arabia has lost 30% of the highly-cited researchers it previously boasted about, which will cause its universities to plummet in the international rankings
A study reveals that academic megajournals ‘Scientific Reports’ and ‘Nature Communications’ have cornered the market
The Hungarian physicist is using attosecond science to try to detect malignant tumors in such early stages that it becomes much easier to cure them