Women and girls in science beyond the 11th of February
Once again, the 11th of February is here, the day set aside to vindicate the role of women and girls in science..
Olga Margalef and Jordi Solé Ollé, the climate crisis beyond emissions
AD4GD, a new project to unify and organise the data needed for the European Green Deal
All Data for Green Deal (AD4GD) is a European project led by CREAF that will help to unify all Earth observation data in a single space and thus support priority actions of the European Green Deal. Just as a storage room can become an efficient warehouse if everything is sorted, labelled and ac
Humans milk the periodic table turning a blind eye to its risks
For millions of years, nature has basically been getting by with just a few elements from the periodic table. Carbon, calcium, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur, magnesium and potassium are the building blocks of almost all life on our planet (tree trunks, leaves, hairs, teeth, etc.). However, to build the world of humans — cities, healthcare products, railways, aeroplanes and their engines, computers, smartphones — we need many more chemical elements.