News
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Discovery of a neutron star that behaves like a black hole
An international scientific team, in which Yuri Cavecchi, from the physics department of the UPC has participated, and led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has found a neutron star that steals matter from a companion star in a violent and unstable. This process, previously only observed in black holes. The study is published in the journal Nature.
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The Generalitat de Catalunya awards a Josep Trueta plaque to the Computational Biology and Complex Systems research group
The Computational Biology and Complex Systems (BIOCOM-SC) research group of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) will receive the Josep Trueta Medal to outstanding professionals and entities in the field of health, on February 22.
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Are dislocations in solid helium “supersolid”?
A team of researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) and Stanford University (USA) performed advanced quantum atomistic simulations to assess the Bose-Einstein condensate fraction of solid helium at zero temperature containing dislocations, a defective system that previously had been proposed to be “supersolid”
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Created a method to prevent and detect forest desertification
Giulio Tirabassi and Cristina Masoller have created an algorithm based on the analysis of satellite data provided by NASA's MODIS instrument that allows preventing the definitive destruction of natural environments
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Professor Trinitat Pradell receives the Narcís Monturiol Medal
On January 25th, at the Palau de la Generalitat Auditorium, the Generalitat of Catalonia awarded Professor Trinitat Pradell the Narcís Monturiol Medal for scientific and technological merit.
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Workshop Computational Biology and Complex Systems
January 13th 2023
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Unmasking the microscopic fingerprint in finite-temperature features of a one-dimensional Bose gas
A team of researchers from UPC in Barcelona and EPFL in Lausanne built a new theory to explain the finite-temperature properties in terms of microscopic excitations of bosons in one dimension
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Participation of the Physics department in research using the WEAVE spectrograph on the evolution of galaxies
A few hundred astronomy professionals have designed and planned a total of five years of operations for the WEAVE spectrograph, a powerful instrument recently installed at the Canary Islands Observatory.
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Research grant from the town council of Terrassa to the student Ricard Kirchner Amor
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A new experimental and numerical investigation on the fatigue response of composite and metal aircraft structures
The researchers Siddharth Pitta, Jose I. Rojas, Francesc Roure, Daniel Crespo, and Magd Abdel Wahab, from the Group of Materials Characterization of the UPC, the Materials Strength Laboratory of the UPC, and the Ghent University, have made new progresses in the characterization of the fatigue response of aircraft repair patches made of carbon fiber reinforced epoxy (CFRE) and aluminum alloy on aircraft airframe substrates made as well of CFRE and aluminum alloy