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Microchips manufactured at the UPC will measure the wind on Mars
The UPC’s Micro and Nanotechnologies Research Group has participated in the design, manufacture and calibration of the wind sensor of the MEDA instrument, which will travel to Mars on board NASA’s Mars 2020 mission to measure wind direction and... -
Quantum mechanics explains how superfluid helium films grow in carbon nanotubes
Research by an international team of researchers led by scientists from the ICFO, with the participation of Jordi Boronat, a researcher at the UPC’s Department of Physics, reports on the controlled, layer-by-layer growth process of superfluid helium... -
UPC students present TO, the sustainable home that is competing in the 2019 Solar Decathlon Europe in Hungary
The new sustainable home TO, which is competing in the 2019 Solar Decathlon Europe, was presented on 14 June at noon. It was conceived by a team of 35 students from the UPC Vallès School of Architecture (ETSAV) and three from the UPC Barcelona East... -
Testing a drone to save lives in the Mediterranean
Three students from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) are participating, together with the Hemav Foundation, in the FREEDA project, in which they are developing an offshore reconnaissance drone to search for people and... -
The BSC-CNS will be home to one of the largest European supercomputers: MareNostrum 5
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center–Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) will host one of the pre-exascale supercomputers in the high-performance computer network promoted by the European Commission, namely MareNostrum 5. It will be a... -
The UPC will confer an honorary doctoral degree on the Italian mathematician Alessio Figalli
The Italian mathematician Alessio Figalli, who received a 2018 Fields Medal, will be awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the UPC. He is a professor at ETH Zurich and one of the most outstanding mathematicians worldwide today. The Governing... -
A UPC researcher in Terrassa creates the first tomography map for diagnosing glaucoma
Pablo Amil, a researcher from the research group in Nonlinear Dynamics, Nonlinear Optics and Lasers (DONLL) at the ESEIAAT, has created an objective model that classifies the degrees of the iridocorneal angle, a key element for assessing the... -
STAT-ON, a new device that helps monitor the symptoms of patients with Parkinson’s
Developed of the UPC, the Sense4Care spin-off and the Centro Médico Teknon – Quirónsalud
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