Science
2025/08/06 - 18:11
Lithium could be crucial to the emergence of Alzheimer's and treatment for the disease
Harvard researchers have found that loss of lithium in the brain accelerates memory impairment by contributing to the disease. The work, published in Nature magazine and done in 10 years, shows for the first time that lithium is produced naturally in the brain and protects it from neurodegeneration.
2025/07/30 - 21:24
Xabier Murelaga, UPV-EHU geologist: "More than 80% of global earthquakes occur in the Pacific Fire Ring."
The director of the UPV/EHU Geology Department has explained that the area where the earthquake occurred this Wednesday, the Kamchatka peninsula, is part of the Pacific Fire Ring, where in 2011 the earthquake that damaged the Japanese coast and caused the Fukushima nuclear accident also occurred.
2025/07/17 - 19:19
They found traces of a wall during the rehabilitation of the Vitoria-Gasteiz Main Theatre, under the seat yard
Archaeologists will produce a report analysing the discovery, and in the meantime, work will continue normally in the rest of the theater.
2025/06/18 - 16:20
HiTZ has found an innovative way to create chattbots in Basque and other small languages
Until now, the ability of chattbots to have good conversations depended on the number of documents written in a particular language openly on the Internet, but the new method will greatly facilitate the creation of intelligible chattbots.