The contribution made by Goodenough, Whittingham and Yoshino, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is the discovery, 30 years ago now, that adding a lithium electrode enormously improves the performance of rechargeable batteries without significantly increasing production costs
The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded twice to three leading scientists pioneers in the field of exoplanets.
The studies carried out by the prize-winners William G. Kaelin, Gregg L. Semenza and Peter J. Ratcliffe describe the mechanisms of one of life’s most essential adaptive processes
The essay explains the importance of transdisciplinary knowledge in order to be a good management practitioner
The journal Nature has reported the finding of a rhinoceros tooth at the site in Dmanisi, Georgia, where members of IPHES and the URV are working
The GRATET Research Group, with the support of URV Solidària, provides the working methodology so that local stakeholders can draw up a tourism plan
Sebastiano Cattaruzzo, awarded a grant by Martí i Franquès COFUND Doctoral Fellowship Programme, is writing his thesis about finance, R&D and automation of manufacturing industries
The finding is from a nutritional study carried out by researchers from the URV’s Human Nutrition Unit, which concludes that regular consumption of nuts by men who follow a western diet improves the quality of their orgasms and their sexual function
During their stay they combine training activities, workshops and cultural visits
Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the URV, jointly with researchers from the UPC, have found a way to reuse the rubber from tyres that are no longer in use, which will save the footwear industry 20 million euros per year in raw material and reduce CO2 emissions by 40,000 tonnes