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Scientific Highlights

The following are some of the research results published in 2023.
They are provided as a small sample of the work being done by ICREAs.

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Minstrels and Music in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Minstrels and Music in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Enhancing tree-ring data coverage over the tropical and subtropical Americas

Enhancing tree-ring data coverage over the tropical and subtropical Americas

Equity concerns in transformative planning: Barcelona’s Superblocks under scrutiny

Equity concerns in transformative planning: Barcelona’s Superblocks under scrutiny

Carbon valorisation: cutting-edge microscopy techniques unveil breakthrough in CO2 hydrogenation catalysts

Carbon valorisation: cutting-edge microscopy techniques unveil breakthrough in CO2 hydrogenation catalysts

The political ecology of an unnatural disaster

The political ecology of an unnatural disaster

The Good, the Bad and the Complex: Product Design with Imperfect Information

The Good, the Bad and the Complex: Product Design with Imperfect Information

Can neural networks learn fast, like children do?

Can neural networks learn fast, like children do?

Developing better triage tools for sick children to improve child survival

Developing better triage tools for sick children to improve child survival

Attosecond Science: A New Era for Many-Body Physics

Attosecond Science: A New Era for Many-Body Physics

Word meanings in language evolution and language development show similar patterns

Word meanings in language evolution and language development show similar patterns

Infants use logic to reduce uncertainty in learning

Infants use logic to reduce uncertainty in learning

How we can use ponds as Nature‑based Solutions for delivering benefits to society

How we can use ponds as Nature‑based Solutions for delivering benefits to society

Geophysics helps to unveil the Roman and Late Antique city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca)

Geophysics helps to unveil the Roman and Late Antique city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca)

Unraveling microscopic optical dipolar interactions

Unraveling microscopic optical dipolar interactions

Sustained payments reduce deforestation in a Mexican agricultural frontier

Sustained payments reduce deforestation in a Mexican agricultural frontier

European 5G Security in the Wild: Reality versus Expectations

European 5G Security in the Wild: Reality versus Expectations

Infant wearing a fNIRS cap allowing to measure changes in the brain hemodynamic response.

Infant wearing a fNIRS cap allowing to measure changes in the brain hemodynamic response.

Distribution of light-matter entanglement in the Barcelona fiber network

Distribution of light-matter entanglement in the Barcelona fiber network

Understanding the magic of movie watching in the brain

Understanding the magic of movie watching in the brain

That pesky “trilled r” sound makes you sweat learning Spanish or Catalan? Stop worrying: it’s much less frequent than we thought!

That pesky “trilled r” sound makes you sweat learning Spanish or Catalan? Stop worrying: it’s much less frequent than we thought!

Identified a new mechanism that controls pluripotent cells differentiation

Identified a new mechanism that controls pluripotent cells differentiation

Discovered epigenetic weaknesses in liver cancer to improve its treatment

Discovered epigenetic weaknesses in liver cancer to improve its treatment

Parent of a deadly yeast pathogen found……. in the sea!

Parent of a deadly yeast pathogen found……. in the sea!

Molecules with memory at room temperature

Molecules with memory at room temperature

Novel mechanism to produce matter out of electromagnetic energy

Novel mechanism to produce matter out of electromagnetic energy

A protein amplification licenses breast cancer metastasis

A protein amplification licenses breast cancer metastasis

Accelerating emergent photovoltaics with SOLS: Spectrum on-demand light source

Accelerating emergent photovoltaics with SOLS: Spectrum on-demand light source

Good things come in threes

Good things come in threes

Fundamental limits to learning mathematical models from data

Fundamental limits to learning mathematical models from data

Tiny new genetic players in glucose homeostasis

Tiny new genetic players in glucose homeostasis

A Cultural History of Western Music, from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

A Cultural History of Western Music, from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Radical improvement of ultra-bioadband photodetection with Graphene

Radical improvement of ultra-bioadband photodetection with Graphene

New models for drough-tolerant cereals cultivation: Insights from Ethnoarchaeological Modelling and Microbotanical Analysis

New models for drough-tolerant cereals cultivation: Insights from Ethnoarchaeological Modelling and Microbotanical Analysis

Artificial Intelligence applications do not understand the limits of grammar like humans

Artificial Intelligence applications do not understand the limits of grammar like humans

Interactions between climate change, urban infrastructure and mobility are driving dengue emergence in Vietnam

Interactions between climate change, urban infrastructure and mobility are driving dengue emergence in Vietnam

Nuclear Fusion Results from the JET tokamak

Nuclear Fusion Results from the JET tokamak

Special Issue in Science about Primate Genomics

Special Issue in Science about Primate Genomics

The earliest Ethiopian wolf: implications for thespecies evolution and its future survival.

The earliest Ethiopian wolf: implications for thespecies evolution and its future survival.

Time and space matters in virus infection fate regulation

Time and space matters in virus infection fate regulation

Chromosomal instability causes DNA damage and promotes invasion

Chromosomal instability causes DNA damage and promotes invasion

Engineering graphene-based quantum circuits with atomic precision

Engineering graphene-based quantum circuits with atomic precision

“Children or Migrants as Public Goods?”

“Children or Migrants as Public Goods?”

Generic Platform for the detection of Osteoporosis

Generic Platform for the detection of Osteoporosis

Fast & Steady Catalyst Design

Fast & Steady Catalyst Design

Inaugural Global Maps of Surface Minerals in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

Inaugural Global Maps of Surface Minerals in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

Is morbidity compressing around the globe?

Is morbidity compressing around the globe?

A water-based nanoreactor technology for producing nanoparticles at atmospheric conditions

A water-based nanoreactor technology for producing nanoparticles at atmospheric conditions

The genetic cause of a novel disease of brain and liver identified

The genetic cause of a novel disease of brain and liver identified

How do we recognise a face?

How do we recognise a face?

A ‘gym on a chip’ to study diabetes.

A ‘gym on a chip’ to study diabetes.

Market integration and the expansion of renewable energy: Evidence from Chile

Market integration and the expansion of renewable energy: Evidence from Chile

Including local cultures in metrics of extinction risk

Including local cultures in metrics of extinction risk

Unraveling ancient diets of anthracotheres and entelodonts, enigmatic creatures from 30 million years ago

Unraveling ancient diets of anthracotheres and entelodonts, enigmatic creatures from 30 million years ago

Artificial Intelligence-driven material design for advanced interconnects technologies

Artificial Intelligence-driven material design for advanced interconnects technologies

Climate drives zoonotic pathogens spillover in the Amazon.

Climate drives zoonotic pathogens spillover in the Amazon.

New compounds with therapeutic potential for some heart diseases

New compounds with therapeutic potential for some heart diseases

An enzyme responsible of an important protein modification in pathogenic bacteria

An enzyme responsible of an important protein modification in pathogenic bacteria

Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment

Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment

Stepwise emergence of the neuronal gene expression program in early animal evolution

Stepwise emergence of the neuronal gene expression program in early animal evolution

Mapping real networks in hidden geometry

Mapping real networks in hidden geometry

Immanuel Kant at 300: The Origin and Structure of the Universe

Immanuel Kant at 300: The Origin and Structure of the Universe

Regulation of filament dynamics during cell division

Regulation of filament dynamics during cell division

Pulsar wind nebulae: at last beyond compression

Pulsar wind nebulae: at last beyond compression

Cancer cells move like active liquid droplets

Cancer cells move like active liquid droplets

Towards a muon collider

Towards a muon collider

New insights on the ocean’s atmospheric carbon dioxide sequestration

New insights on the ocean’s atmospheric carbon dioxide sequestration

The Two Faces of ZEB1: A Tumor-Promoting Protein in Cancer Cells that Protects Against Inflammation in Macrophages

The Two Faces of ZEB1: A Tumor-Promoting Protein in Cancer Cells that Protects Against Inflammation in Macrophages

New AI methods for uncovering secret functioning of cancer

New AI methods for uncovering secret functioning of cancer

ICREA Memoir 2023