Barcelona Science Week

BARCELONA SCIENCE WEEK

The research done at the Alba Synchrotron places us among the best in the world.

Carme Escales

We enter the nerve center of the Alba park, at the Alba Synchrotron light source, the most powerful "glasses" for scientific research, capable of exploring matter down to the atom. This luminous power is obtained from electrons generated by heating tungsten metal to a thousand degrees, which are made to...

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Scientific infrastructures are expanding to open up to businesses

Cristina Martín Valbuena

Scientific infrastructures are complex and it is difficult to understand what goes on inside them, but they are fundamental pieces for not falling behind. Although terms like synchrotron and supercomputer sound like science fiction, it is here where new drugs are studied and less polluting materials are tested. Barcelona researches...

BARCELONA SCIENCE WEEK

The BSC connects with business innovation

Mariona Sanz

In an increasingly competitive and changing global environment, innovation has become a fundamental pillar for the sustainability and growth of companies. Those organizations that do not innovate run the risk of falling behind, especially in a context where emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing are providing key...