The finding has been confirmed in an experiment by researchers from the URV, the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, who propose a new approach to the debate on the advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism: a good performance in one area of linguistic ability may mean lower accuracy or speed in another, and vice-versa
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More than 1,200 people took part in the 26 scientific workshops prepared by a hundred researchers from the University and the ICAC, ICIQ, IISPV and IPHES research institutes. The activity, coordinated once again by the URV, exceeded expectations in its return to a face-to-face format
The seven CRAI Campuses host a traveling exhibition on scientific photography until February
The applicants are applying for a place on the Martí i Franquès program, in its Standard, Banco Santander and MSCA-COFUND editions. The successful candidates will take up their positions at the University as from December 2021 and will be given contracts of up to three years
URV research demonstrates the mechanism by which microplastics, when in contact with cell membranes, stretch and greatly reduce their mechanical stability
The series “Meet our fellows” highlights the profile of the PhD fellows, their research projects and their experience at the URV as beneficiaries of a grant from the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Marta Sales Pardo is the first woman from a Catalan and Spanish university to have been appointed as a fellow member by this scientific society.
A research group from the URV and the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute have analysed the concentration of various toxic elements in these foods and evaluated the risk of consuming them in infant, adolescent and adult populations
Using high-performance computation systems, a URV research team has simulated the flow of air produced by coughing and sneezing in unprecedented detail. The results give greater insight into the characteristics of the flow produced by breathing and the capacity of infectious aerosols to disperse in the environment and remain suspended, which spreads COVID-19 and other airborne diseases
It is the 6th university in Catalonia and the 20th in Spain. Of the almost 20,000 universities in the world only 1,300 are included in the ranking