Scientific Highlights

The following are some of the research results published in 2021.
They are provided as a small sample of the work being done by ICREAs.

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Quantum theory needs complex numbers

Unveiling the hidden genes

The same drug has opposite effects in memory when comparing males and females

The health impacts and pathways of gentrification in European and American cities

Single-Atom Catalysts for Energy and Environmental Applications

Children are less efficient at trasmitting SARS-CoV-2 than adults

Most brilliant and broad laser light source

Strain brings electrons together

The interactions among species are crucial for structuring lake fish communities

Why is optical refractive index so small?

Disciplinary, gender and geographical biases dominate the production of science about ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation

How do malaria parasites defend themselves from febrile temperatures?

Super resolution microscopy reveals how DNA supercoiling shapes the genome

SARDO: Rescuing Lost Victims through their Mobile Phones with Drones

Towards quantum repeaters: Telecom heralded entanglement between solid-state quantum memories

Revisiting the Global Workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organisation of the human brain

Want to tell ‘blue’ from ‘green’? Avoid too much sun…

Use of quantitative models to predict gene expression

The Profit Paradox

The Completion of the Latin Talmud Edition

Crossing paths to drug resistance

White paper on astrocytes in diseases of the central nervous system

Complete coupling of light to optical surface excitations

New breast cancer precision medicine approach to prevent metastasis: from bench to bedside

Why are hybrid metal-halide perovskites so defect tolerant?

What big eyes you have!

A biosensor made of photosynthetic complexes from plants

Controlling brain states with a ray of light

How do plants and animals use alternative splicing?

Strengthening evidence for four-top-quark production at the LHC

Life history evolution of insular dwarf elephants

Optical Schrodinger’s cat states in High Harmonic Generation

Overweight-related fatty liver impacts immune response to therapies in liver cancer

Uncovering the drivers of cancer

Progress in the development of cutting-edge High Performance Computing tools for modelling of fusion multiphysics phenomena

The Vertebrates Genome Project introduces the era of the reconstruction of the genetic representation for all species

Holography, Cosmological Phase Transitions and Gravitational Waves

Advanced nanobiosensors for diagnostics of COVID19 and more

Relationship between chromosomal instability and senescence revealed in the fly Drosophila

Mapping the dark matter in the Universe

Coupling Metabolism and Differentiation to treat kidney disease

Fossil Apes and Human Evolution

A rapid mechanism for muscle self-repair independent of stem cells

Catalysts removing polluting molecules from air at very low temperatures

Building solidarity networks during the covid -19 pandemic in Brazil

New tools for designing your own enzyme

Synthesis of 2D porous crystalline materials in simulated microgravity

Device fingerprint of Magnetic Topological Matter

Climate is a structural driver of infectious diseases worldwide: From malaria in Ethiopia to the COVID- 19 pandemic

Decentralizing World Literature Through Data Science

Justification as Ignorance. An Essay in Epistemology

Breaking paradigms of enzyme action to fight plant pathogens

BioEngineering Hybrid Robotics across different length scales: from Nanobots to Biobots

Hot spots? No, thank you!

Electrostatics and electromechanics in two-dimensional crystals

Theories of Rationality and the Descriptive/Normative divide: A Historical Approach

A new target gene to treat hyper-mutated lung cancers by disabling DNA repair

Gene-editing reveals how the cell división machinery becomes increasingly stable during cell division

Looking inside matters

Pulsations from a pulsar while accreting? Why not!

How does the intestinal epithelium fold and move?

Energy rebound under limited rationality, self-interest and willpower

Look at the phase

What is language for?

Neandertal Art

Anthropogenic Climate Change Affects Marine Plankton Populations In The Mediterranean Sea