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The Basque Tecnalia technology center today opened one of its facilities Bizkaia Technology Park, a line profiling automotive prototype developed within the European research project PROFORM.
The goal, develop a new concept of manufacture of structural parts for the automobile based on the profiling variable section along with operations of forming, laser cutting and forming electromagnetic (local details are not continuous along the length of the piece), reducing time and cost of manufacturing.
Most components of the car structure are obtained by printing due to the variety of forms that can be achieved with this technology for forming.
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The lithium-ion batteries are used in all new car models plug, however, large quantities of pollution that can be generated when its life is over and the opportunity to innovate in renewable technologies has led to nanotechnology to produce interesting Advances in batteries for hybrid cars.
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A group of engineers at the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) has developed a racing motorcycle that will debut in the Championship of Spain this year. The prototype, designed under the rules of the category Moto2, will begin filming in circuit in the coming weeks.
The short term objective is that this bike will soon debut in the Championship of Spain. “We can not venture what the performance on track, because in a dynamic set as complex as a motorcycle there are too many variables to consider and that may determine its ultimate performance,” explains the engineer Jose Perez, Technical Director of the Laboratory Motorcycles Machine (MaqLab) of UC3M, developing this project in collaboration with the MDT team HUNE Racing Team.
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Desertification is associated with the phenomenon of matorralizacion in semiarid areas is not a universal phenomenon. This is the conclusion which has conducted a comprehensive study conducted in Spanish espartales recently published by the prestigious journal Ecology Letters.
Terrestrial ecosystems are being subjected to global environmental change, it is difficult to analyze and predict, given the multiplicity of factors that affect it and to the nature of natural ecosystems, subjected to continuous transformations. Undoubtedly the best known is that climate change is not alone though, as an important component of global change is the change in land use, ie changes in the type of cover,
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Researchers at the National Institute of Science and Technology of Advanced Industrial (AIST) in collaboration with the Japanese company Housetec have developed a new technique for manufacturing plastics hydrophilic.
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The scientific community considers the Cambrian explosion one of the most important episodes in the history of life on Earth, with the first occurrence in the fossil record of most of the divisions of the animals. But the causes have been discussed during decadas. Ahora formulated a new theory that the oceanic calcium content, generated by volcanic activity, could be key to understanding the explosion of life in the Cambrian.
The question of what sparked the organization of unicellular microorganisms Precambrian Era (500 million years ago) in multicellular organisms has remained unanswered so far.
Xavier Fernandez-Busquets, the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona, and Dario Anselmetti, University of Bielefeld, along with other researchers at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, published in November issue of the journal Molecular Biology and EvolutionNow available on line.
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Hydrogen Group at the Public University of Navarre has received from the hands of a car to modify and work with hydrogen, an inexhaustible fuel that produces no polluting emissions or greenhouse gases.
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It is a grand vision: North Africa, production of solar electricity is intended to cover energy needs in Europe and support at the same time partners in the region. For this purpose, German companies have banded together in the initiative DESERTEC. The Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomed the project.
The project DESERTEC solar electricity is thus the largest in the world of this type. DESERTEC The initiative aims to build solar power plants in the Middle East and North Africa to produce electricity. Politically, the initiative DESERTEC part of the Mediterranean Solar Plan of Union for the Mediterranean. In this regard, Mr Steinmeier made the following statement in Berlin: “With DESERTEC, German companies are a major step toward energy future.
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The Titan’s electron microscope facility, considered the world’s most advanced and now has come to the University of Zaragoza, Aragon puts in the forefront of nanoscience research worldwide. It is the first such equipment installed in Spain, and throughout the Mediterranean area, which represents a qualitative leap in its research capacity and provide a level of excellence in the international arena.
At a cost of more than 11.2 million, financed by the Ministry of Science through an agreement with the Government of Aragon, the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, University of Zaragoza where you installed the Titan becomes a single space integrated into the network of scientific-unique scepters Spain. That amount rises to 20 million euros, taking into account the 6 million already invested in other microscopy equipment used for some time, as the cost of other equipment to be received shortly.
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A team of researchers led by Professor Hiroshi Asahara, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development has examined the functions of a gene involved in the development of the tendons. Applications are available in regenerative medicine.
We call the tendons and thick fibrous tissue that connect muscle to bone. They transmit muscle forces to bone, allowing movement. They are mainly composed of collagen fibers secreted by some specialized cells. A tendon is likely to wear out from repeated activity, or weaken with age: this may cause a tear or rupture of the tendon. The healing of tendon disorders is slow and often incomplete.
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