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29/01/2016 | Divulgación científica

Meeting the challenge of starting a Technology-Based Company
There is much talk about applied science, the one that goes beyond the limits of basic research to promote the development of the society. Different mechanisms are used to transfer knowledge from the laboratory to concrete issues that impact upon every day life. One transfer form encouraged by the CONICET is the creation of Technology-Based...

29/01/2016 | Divulgación científica

Aedes aegypti, un problema que se soluciona con la ayuda de todos
Originaria de África, Aedes aegypti es una especie de mosquito que se desarrollaba en ambientes de la naturaleza muy parecidos a lo que hoy son recipientes artificiales. Con el tiempo este insecto se fue adaptando a la cercanía del hombre porque le ofrece una gran cantidad de hábitats para su desarrollo como vasijas, frascos, regaderas,...

26/01/2016 | Noticias

Dr. Ceccatto stressed the development of projects for science and technology decentralization in Jujuy
The president of the Board of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Dr. Alejandro Ceccatto, participated in a visit to the province of Jujuy on Monday January 11th together with the minister of Science Technology and Productive Innovation, Dr. Lino Barañao, and other officials at the Ministry of Science. They all met...

22/01/2016 | Divulgación científica

The best solution: thermal insulation
Hot days increase the demand of electric power due to the rise in the number of air-conditioners working almost permanently. This situation makes that at times transformers that distribute power collapse and produce power cuts that extend until the necessary repairs are carried out, what can take several days. Luis Eduardo Juanicó, CONICET...

22/01/2016 | Divulgación científica

Argentina: tierra de gigantes
Un grupo de paleontólogos liderado por Bernardo González Riga, investigador independiente del CONICET en el Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA)  y Director del Laboratorio de Dinosaurios de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO), descubrió en el sur de la provincia de Mendoza, huesos fósiles de...

20/01/2016 | Divulgación científica

Hackers: the immunological system of information society?
Before being one of Apple founders, Stephen Wozniak was a hacker. He took advantage of failures in telephone systems to make free calls. Adrian Lamo, American, broke down the Microsoft and Yahoo systems to tell them later how he had done it. Currently, Lamo is a journalist and is known to have denounced Bradley Manning, the soldier who leaked to...

14/01/2016 | Divulgación científica

Science and community united against Chagas disease
David Eladio Gorla, CONICET principal researcher at the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología (IMBIV, CONICET-UNC) [Multidisciplinary Plant Biology], leads a research project funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation. The aim of the project is to measure the impact of the Programa de Erradicación de Ranchos...

12/01/2016 | Divulgación científica

El aislamiento térmico como la mejor solución
Los días de calor suelen aumentar la demanda de energía eléctrica, debido, sobre todo, al incremento del número de acondicionadores de aire funcionando de manera casi permanente. Esta situación conlleva a que, en ocasiones, los transformadores que distribuyen la energía colapsen y se produzcan cortes en el suministro eléctrico que se...

07/01/2016 | Divulgación científica

Pain: a psychological and cultural perspective
Marcelo Villar, principal CONICET researcher at the Universidad Austral of Buenos Aires, comments that when he was PhD student and began his study, he would talk to a colleague, an old psychiatrist called Guillermo Vidal. He told him that when he got his degree, he used to work at the Braulio Moyano Hospital - Neuropsychiatric Hospital for women...

05/01/2016 | Noticias

Alejandro Ceccatto is the new president of CONICET
Newly appointed members of the Ministry of Science Technology and Productive Innovation, who will work with Minister Lino Baraño in his third administration, were sworn into office. The ceremony was held at the Polo Científico Tecnológico, where the secretary of Scientific and Technological Bonds, Agustín Campero; the Planning and Policies...