Technology/Science news & information for Costa Maresme

A FIRM annual fixture for fans of the latest technology, the Barcelona-based Mobile World Congress (MWC) never fails to blow visitors' minds with creations they didn't know they needed. And these cutting-edge...

IT'S NOT all sunning yourself by the sea during your sixth-form summer holidays when you're going to be Queen – sometimes you have to spend your down-time going to work. And in full public view, too, knowing...

PROBABLY the most famous and futuristic techno fair on earth, the Mobile World Congress is now open again in Barcelona – just nine months after the last one.

SCIENTISTS in Spain may have found the key to early detection of a type of cancer which is rarely diagnosed until it is too late.

A FIRST phase of clinical trials for a Covid vaccine created entirely in Spain has been authorised, and if all goes according to plan, the formula could be in use by between January and March next year.

AFTER the second-hottest July this century and August lurching from extreme temperatures on one day – around 40ºC in the southern two-thirds of the country – to refreshing thunder storms the next, and September...

RESEARCHERS from Spain have joined an international study which could predict the lifespan of women's fertility, and even prolong it.

FIVE months later than scheduled and nearly two-and-a-half years after the previous edition, the Mobile World Congress is back in Barcelona – albeit adapted to the Covid situation and with fewer international visitors...

A HOSPITAL in the province of Barcelona has successfully carried out Spain's first-ever outpatient stomach reduction operation.

BARCELONA Metropolitan Transport (TMB) has launched a system to help the blind and partially-sighted find their way around the rail and bus network – in fact, it is a world first.

A 'HOME-MADE' vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus is expected to be in use in Spain by the end of this year, meaning it could be in time for inoculating young adults in low-risk occupations with no key physical...

A LEADING Spanish hospital says it has come up with an 'effective treatment plan' for sufferers of fibromyalgia, an often-debilitating 'invisible illness' of which awareness has been increasing in the...