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Scientists link the emergence of current tropical forests with the mass extinction at the end-Cretaceous

A research team analyzed what happened to the vegetation after the impact of the asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. The study was published in Science.

Roof tiles developed by CEVE-CONICET received the Recircle Awards 2021

The Experimental Center for Economic Housing Research (CEVE) was given the Recircle Awards 2021 in the category Best Tyred Derived Recycled Product for the roof tiles made from recycled tyres.

CONICET scientists received an international award for their work on role of hippocampus in motor learning

Valeria Della Maggiore and her research team received the Susanne Klein-Vogelbach Prize.

Researchers prove that early Andean bean agriculture preserved the genetic diversity of the seeds

An international study revealed that the selection of desired traits and the loss of gene variation were uncoupled during the legume domestication process.

CONICET and the ‘National University of Mar del Plata’ opened a new institute

It is the ‘Institute for Research in Production, Health and Environment’ which belongs to the ‘Scientific and Technological Center CONICET Mar del Plata’.

New software to measure the immune response against any type of cancer

CONICET scientists developed a new bioinformatic tool based on artificial intelligence that determines the amount and type of tumor-infiltrating white blood cells.

Scientists discover the oldest Spanish dictionary

One CONICET researcher found fragments of the incunabulum in a library of Princeton University. It was also possible to determine that the author was Alfonso de Palencia, one of the greatest humanists of the 15th century. 

The first book of CONICET’s Network of Assessment and Monitoring of the Aquatic System

It shows the researcher’s network studies on environmental management of water as an instrument for decision making about aquatic ecology.

CONICET researcher describes the evolution of a group of marsupials that lived during the Paleogene

Laura Chornogubsky studies the evolutionary history of polydolopies. The first to describe the group was Florentino Ameghino.

Scientists use quantum physics to enhance medical imaging

Analía Zwick and Gonzalo A. Álvarez, CONICET researchers, propose ‘quantum recipes’ that could be used in nuclear resonators to achieve better resolution. The study was published in Physical Review Applied.

Speaking rhythmically can enhance auditory perception

CONICET researcher participated in a study that analyzed the interaction between the areas of the brain in charge of producing and perceiving speech. It was published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Global warming makes trees grow faster but die sooner

This is the conclusion of a study done by an international team in which CONICET researchers participated.

Ferrucyon avius: the new genus of canidae described by CONICET researchers

The find refutes a 30-year-old paleontological theory and contributes to reconstruct the evolution of mammals in America.

NEOKIT PLUS, a new rapid diagnostic test of COVID-19, was approved by the ANMAT

It reduces diagnostic time and cost as it detects the virus from swab or saliva.

NEOKIT and Y-TEC begin to export tests for COVID-19

After meeting the demands of the public health system and the local market, the national test has begun to be exported within the continent.

DNA mutations of local howler monkeys (Alouatta) could have saved them from yellow fever

A team of Argentine and North American researchers analyzed the genetic profile of the survivors of the last great outbreak -which occured in 2007 in Misiones- and made new hypotheses about one of the most threatened species in the world.