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At least three people have died and three others are seriously ill due to an outbreak of a hantavirus recorded on a cruise in the Atlantic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported. The infection has been confirmed in one of the deceased and is suspected in the others who have fallen ill. It is exceptional for hantaviruses to be transmitted between people, and there is no precedent for hantavirus outbreaks with multiple cases on cruises.

For chemist Núria López, being in the top 1% of the most cited scientists in the world according to the latest Clarivate ranking is not a destination but the result of a sustained trajectory at the elite level of research. Her career is marked by intuitions and the idea of turning problems into resources. This logic now guides her work at the Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ) in Tarragona, where she seeks to convert CO₂ into fuel and close the carbon cycle.

La Fundación ”la Caixa” strengthens its role as one of the major drivers of biomedical research in Europe with the launch of CaixaResearch Institute, a project that synthesizes more than 120 years of commitment to health, science, and talent. Since its origin in 1904, driven by Francesc Moragas, to the present under the presidency of Isidro Fainé, the entity has maintained a social vocation aimed at improving quality of life, with special attention to the most vulnerable groups.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can make better decisions than doctors in hospital emergency services when patient information is incomplete and decisions that need to be made quickly can be life or death, according to research led by Harvard Medical School published today in the journal Science.

The ”la Caixa” Foundation strengthens its role as one of the major drivers of biomedical research in Europe with the launch of the CaixaResearch Institute, a project that synthesizes over 120 years of commitment to health, science, and talent. Since its origin in 1904, driven by Francesc Moragas, until today under the presidency of Isidro Fainé, the entity has maintained a social vocation aimed at improving the quality of life, with special attention to the most vulnerable groups.

Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin successfully launched the New Glenn rocket today, which will be used in the coming years to send modules into space that astronauts will use to descend to the lunar surface as part of NASA’s Artemis program.