Communicating science effectively and rigorously is still one of the many challenges facing scientists and researchers today. Indeed, in the current context it is more important than ever to involve society in the work undertaken at universities and research centres.
LIFE Mary Kingsley canoeing down the Ogooué River, on her second trip to western Africa, having visited the island of Fernando Poo, then a Spanish colony.
F. W. Dyson One of the most famous photographs of a solar eclipse, taken by F.W. Dyson in Sobral, Brazil, in 1919. The double horizontal dashes indicate
Ana Ponce & Ivo Rovira The Salvador library collections (1,300 volumes) are preserved at Barcelona’s Institut Botànic, in the same drawers and bookcases that Josep Salvador i
Miguel Lorenzo In February 1998, an outbreak of hepatitis C viral infection was discovered in Valencia, which was quickly attributed to the less than negligent work performance
Population screening for certain tumours has shown that early diagnosis can lead to better treatment at an earlier stage of the disease.National Cancer Institute
Agencia SINC One of the main environmental problems is massive industrial production of antimicrobial drugs, their widespread use in medicine, veterinary medicine and agriculture, and consequent release
From one of the grey doors lining up in the Medicine department, some musical notes emerge. They come from the office of Rafael Tabarés, professor of Psychiatry in the University
Interview with Javier Magriña
Javier Magriña knew he wanted to be a surgeon ever since he could perform his first autopsy during his medical studies in Barcelona. His enthusiasm was fuelled by the support
ABSTRACT Cancer has long been a taboo, an illness surrounded by secrecy, socially silenced and consequently excluded from visual and artistic representation. This article aims to highlight the pioneering role played
