We thought it would be interesting to invite Joan Francesc Mira and Antonio Ariño to this interview to discuss the origins of festivals, their links with seasonal cycles, even the biological background that may exist in many facets of festivals. This reunion of the «mentor» and the «disciple» is also cause for celebration.

Thank you to Antonio Granell’s work, now we know the cause behind those tasteless tomatoes from the supermarket: the inactivity of the GLK2 gen.

Interview with Francesc Miralles, historian, art critic and expert in Joaquim Mir, painter of 'La cala encantada' ("The enchanted cove").

Josep Jacas, full professor of Plant Production at Jaume I University remains  while the devouring action of the red palm weevil. The researcher, who has spent years studying this pest

We talked with the «guardian» of the Botanic Garden of the University of Valencia about the red palm weevil. The arboriculture technician José Plumed has been a pioneer in the

© Fernando Morant Vicent Martínez Sancho fou el primer físic que escrigué una obra sobre física en català. Vicent Martínez Sancho (Simat de la Valldigna, 1943) has been teaching Physics at

Anna Mateu Dominique Pestre, director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, arrives at the Cerveró Palace with a fresh and casual air. This

Perhaps among the features that best characterise the work of Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Paris-Sorbonne University, are her tireless efforts to build intellectual bridges and help us understand science in the past and present.

[caption id="attachment_5579" align="alignleft" width="200"] © M. Lorenzo[/caption] Thomas Glick is a professor of Medieval History at the University of Boston, and holds an honorary degree by the University of Valencia. For

Interview with Frans de Waal, Primatology professor at the University of Emory (Atlanta).

Pedro Carrasco Sorlí is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Valencia, a position handed down to him from the current Vice-Chancellor, Professor Esteban Morcillo. Holding a Bachelor in

Sir David Attenborough’s (London, 1926) passion for his work, televising nature, has not faded one bit after over half a century travelling round the world.

Xavier Bellés —head of the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona— talked with us on the occasion of the launching of the book he adapted to contemporary Catalan, Bestiari.

An interview with the science historian and Charles Darwin biographer

Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2002, taks with Mètode about his experience in the science world, always guided by motivation and curiosity.

Edward O. Wilson has been fascinated by nature ever since he was a child. He cannot imagine anything more amusing or appealing than the study of the complexity of any ecosystem on Earth. Some years ago, when he was a lecturer at Harvard University, Wilson used to tell his students to go for walk in campus and take a look at the ground.

Noam Avram Chomsky turned the field of linguistics upside down in 1957 when Syntactic Structures was published. He argued that the capacity for language acquisition is innate in humans.