Primary school teachers can sign up their groups of 10-12 years old children for the third edition of Mision ALBA at www.misionalba.es. After the great success of the past editions with more than 300 teachers and 10,000 students from all over the country registered, this school-year 500 available places are offered for this educational project launched by the ALBA Synchrotron. This edition opens with the novelty of 4 new experiments about the light and its properties.
An international research team has obtained for the first time the structure of the light-sensitive sodium-pumping KR2 protein in its active state. The discovery provides a description of the mechanism behind the light-driven sodium ion transfer across the cell membrane. Understanding how KR2 works is crucial for optimizing the functional characteristics of that protein and using it as the basis for new optogenetic tools.
Till 21st December 2020, small and medium companies can ask for funded beamtime in different European light sources thanks to EU CALIPSOplus project.
Researchers from Spain’s Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), University of Alcalá (UAH), the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) and the ALBA Synchrotron have demonstrated for the first time the presence of microplastic in a freshwater lake in the Arctic. So far, these kind of contaminants had only been registered in marine ecosystems of the arctic region.
The Digital Object Identifier, or DOI, is a persistent link, and specifically, it is an identifier allowing data to the traced from production to publication.
