Scientific Highlights
The following are some of the research results published in 2025.
They are provided as a small sample of the work being done by ICREAs.
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Recovering Lost Lyric Theory: The Suma de tot lo Gay Saber and Medieval Catalan Poetry
Recovering Lost Lyric Theory: The Suma de tot lo Gay Saber and Medieval Catalan Poetry
The 15-Minute City Debate
The 15-Minute City Debate
A light-curable bioadhesive to prevent infection
A light-curable bioadhesive to prevent infection
Falling Interest Rates and Credit Reallocation: Lessons from General Equilibrium
Falling Interest Rates and Credit Reallocation: Lessons from General Equilibrium
How colorectal cancer liver metastasis evade the immune system
How colorectal cancer liver metastasis evade the immune system
Shortest light pulse ever created – 19.2 attoseconds.
Shortest light pulse ever created – 19.2 attoseconds.
A new network to detect the echoes of the hidden Universe is taking shape
A new network to detect the echoes of the hidden Universe is taking shape
The proteostatic landscape of healthy human oocytes.
The proteostatic landscape of healthy human oocytes.
Controlling Magnetism by Twisting Organic Molecules
Controlling Magnetism by Twisting Organic Molecules
Pond quality is key to saving Europe’s declining amphibians
Pond quality is key to saving Europe’s declining amphibians
Decision support tools: can they mislead us?
Decision support tools: can they mislead us?
Bending ice generates electricity
Bending ice generates electricity
A new Roman bed decorated with bone in the Northwest House of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca)
A new Roman bed decorated with bone in the Northwest House of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca)
Phase separation in driven-dissipative quantum systems
Phase separation in driven-dissipative quantum systems
Crisis Without Transformation: Protected Areas and the Missed Lessons of COVID-19
Crisis Without Transformation: Protected Areas and the Missed Lessons of COVID-19
A Virus that Reorganizes the Human Genome
A Virus that Reorganizes the Human Genome
Quantum Computing: The Green Engine for Future Mobile Networks
Quantum Computing: The Green Engine for Future Mobile Networks
Unifying Brain Geometry and Connectivity
Unifying Brain Geometry and Connectivity
It’s not just an impression: words for “rough” things do use “r”!
It’s not just an impression: words for “rough” things do use “r”!
Sounding the past – Pioneering research on archaeoacoustics and past musical instruments
Sounding the past – Pioneering research on archaeoacoustics and past musical instruments
Redrawing Early Neolithic Settlement Maps and Movement pathways in Les Coves Llongues
Redrawing Early Neolithic Settlement Maps and Movement pathways in Les Coves Llongues
Irreversibility of regional climate in overshoot scenarios
Irreversibility of regional climate in overshoot scenarios
Extremal problems in Bounded Mean Oscillation
Extremal problems in Bounded Mean Oscillation
Electrolyte Design Principles for Renewable Fuels and Chemicals
Electrolyte Design Principles for Renewable Fuels and Chemicals
From Toilet to Wheels: Powering Transportation with Human Waste
From Toilet to Wheels: Powering Transportation with Human Waste
Molecular study of world’s oldest living person reveals new secrets of healthy ageing
Molecular study of world’s oldest living person reveals new secrets of healthy ageing
Uncovering an Anti-Jewish Procedure in Fifteenth-Century Chambéry
Uncovering an Anti-Jewish Procedure in Fifteenth-Century Chambéry
Blood stem cells in health and lifespan
Blood stem cells in health and lifespan
Seeing the technosphere
Seeing the technosphere
A new technique for nanoscale spectroscopy
A new technique for nanoscale spectroscopy
Extremely massive stars forged the Universe’s oldest star clusters
Extremely massive stars forged the Universe’s oldest star clusters
A 3D-printable, general-purpose, sustainable insulator
A 3D-printable, general-purpose, sustainable insulator
When Electrons in Metal Halide Perovskites “Hear” the Sound of Cationic Rattlers
When Electrons in Metal Halide Perovskites “Hear” the Sound of Cationic Rattlers
Intermediaries of biological electron transport
Intermediaries of biological electron transport
Highly predictive simple models of human mobility
Highly predictive simple models of human mobility
Tracking T Cells in Time and Space to Unlock Personalized Immunotherapy in Childhood Cancer
Tracking T Cells in Time and Space to Unlock Personalized Immunotherapy in Childhood Cancer
Three New Publications on Music and Colonialism in Early Modern Southeast Asia
Three New Publications on Music and Colonialism in Early Modern Southeast Asia
50 years after the Limits to Growth report
50 years after the Limits to Growth report
Trustworthy AI in healthcare: A symphony of many voices
Trustworthy AI in healthcare: A symphony of many voices
Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder
Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder
Compound and cascading effects of climatic extremes on dengue outbreak risk in the Caribbean
Compound and cascading effects of climatic extremes on dengue outbreak risk in the Caribbean
Simulating Fusion Energy at Exascale
Simulating Fusion Energy at Exascale
Clip-off Chemistry: A New Paradigm for the Design and Synthesis of Molecules and Materials
Clip-off Chemistry: A New Paradigm for the Design and Synthesis of Molecules and Materials
Antinormative Interpretation
Antinormative Interpretation
Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions
Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions
Towards the next generation of nanobiosensors
Towards the next generation of nanobiosensors
New tool to generate mosaic aneuploidies and analyse their impact on development
New tool to generate mosaic aneuploidies and analyse their impact on development
Trustworthy public randomness from loophole-free Bell tests
Trustworthy public randomness from loophole-free Bell tests
Other Pasts. Feminist Archaeology, Maintenance Activities, and Reconceptualisation
Other Pasts. Feminist Archaeology, Maintenance Activities, and Reconceptualisation
Noninvasive cardiac modulation via triplet-sensitized photoswitching in the phototherapeutic window
Noninvasive cardiac modulation via triplet-sensitized photoswitching in the phototherapeutic window
From Invisible Plants to Visible Decisions: Explainable AI for Phytolith Identification
From Invisible Plants to Visible Decisions: Explainable AI for Phytolith Identification
Future climate-driven fires may boost ocean productivity in the iron-limited North Atlantic
Future climate-driven fires may boost ocean productivity in the iron-limited North Atlantic
Magnetic microrobots for targeted therapies
Magnetic microrobots for targeted therapies
Evidence of a completely different coding of memories in humans
Evidence of a completely different coding of memories in humans
Paying to Harm Nature: The Hidden Price of Economic Subsidies
Paying to Harm Nature: The Hidden Price of Economic Subsidies
When lost giants were the architects of Neotropical forests
When lost giants were the architects of Neotropical forests
Antibiotics at birth reshape infant mycobiota in early life
Antibiotics at birth reshape infant mycobiota in early life
When Disorder Unlocks: Delocalization and Quantum Geometry in Magic-Angle Graphene
When Disorder Unlocks: Delocalization and Quantum Geometry in Magic-Angle Graphene
New method for a near real-time identification of airborne bacteria
New method for a near real-time identification of airborne bacteria
A new concept for synthetic cell membranes
A new concept for synthetic cell membranes
Culture, translation and soft power
Culture, translation and soft power
Uncovering how microbes dismantle seaweed cell walls
Uncovering how microbes dismantle seaweed cell walls
How cells feel viscoelasticity and why this is important in health and disease
How cells feel viscoelasticity and why this is important in health and disease
Sine waves to desynchronize brain waves
Sine waves to desynchronize brain waves
Decoding the regulatory architecture of splicing factor programs
Decoding the regulatory architecture of splicing factor programs
Network Renormalizaton
Network Renormalizaton
Moving consciousness science forward
Moving consciousness science forward
Computing the bit-size of the solutions of polynomial equations
Computing the bit-size of the solutions of polynomial equations
Are memories containing multiple sensory modalities better remembered than single-modality ones?
Are memories containing multiple sensory modalities better remembered than single-modality ones?
MYC in cancer: from undruggable target to clinical trials
MYC in cancer: from undruggable target to clinical trials
Computer simulations show how two types of motors organize a bipolar spindle
Computer simulations show how two types of motors organize a bipolar spindle
Iron-Oxygen chemistry: Boosting reactivity
Iron-Oxygen chemistry: Boosting reactivity
A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare
A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare
New simulations hint pulsar nebulae are influenced by the evolution of their progenitor stars
New simulations hint pulsar nebulae are influenced by the evolution of their progenitor stars
Cell navigation through complex environments
Cell navigation through complex environments
Giving graphene a new handle on spins
Giving graphene a new handle on spins
Linguistic Decoding of Paris Climate Pledges
Linguistic Decoding of Paris Climate Pledges
Subtle but intriguing deviations from the simplest picture of dark energy
Subtle but intriguing deviations from the simplest picture of dark energy
Naming the Disease and Experiencing the Illness
Naming the Disease and Experiencing the Illness
“Where go, huh?” Young children’s use of huh challenges assumptions about language development
“Where go, huh?” Young children’s use of huh challenges assumptions about language development
Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings