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Environment - Politics - 06.06.2024
Each individual’s social support for climate change promotes climate policies
According to a study by UC3M and the Elcano Institute The individual pressure that each person can exert to combat climate change has a significant effect on their environment to promote green behaviour. This is one of the conclusions of a scientific study by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies that analyses the socio-political factors that influence the acceptance of climate policies in Spain.

Politics - 23.05.2024
Research analyses the characteristics of AI-generated deepfakes
Most of the deepfakes (videos with fake hyper-realistic recreations) generated by artificial intelligence (AI) that spread through social media feature political representatives and artists and are often linked to current news cycles. This is one of the conclusions of research by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) that analyses the formal and content characteristics of viral misinformation in Spain arising from the use of AI tools for illicit purposes.

Computer Science - Innovation - 29.04.2024
Innovative verification techniques to increase security in artificial intelligence and image processing
The results not only improve the efficiency and scalability of cryptographic proof systems, but also open up new possibilities for ensuring the integrity, fairness and privacy of data processing tasks in various applications of AI and image processing.

Social Sciences - Computer Science - 21.03.2024
UC3M gets Fundación BBVA research project to analyse the relationship between friendship and culture
The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is coordinating one of the five BBVA Foundation's Fundamentals Programme's innovative research projects to explore core issues in basic science. Specifically, the UC3M project, in which research staff from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Florida (UF) in the USA are also participating, will analyse the mutual dependence between social relations and cultural characteristics.

Health - Mathematics - 20.03.2024
A computational model has been created to simulate the biomechanical growth of breast tumors
A computational model has been created to simulate the biomechanical growth of breast tumors
Research by UC3M and Johns Hopkins University Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU), in the USA, have analyzed the growth of breast tumors from a biomechanical perspective and have created a computational model that simulates the invasion process of cancer cells, depending on the characteristics of the surrounding tissue and cell junctions, among other parameters.

Social Sciences - Law - 14.03.2024
A UC3M study points out the changes needed to achieve an inclusive care model based on human rights
In order to achieve a personalised and community-based care model for certain vulnerable population groups (people with disabilities, the elderly, children and adolescents at risk and homeless people)

Computer Science - Innovation - 26.02.2024
High-precision router
High-precision router
UPM and UC3M scientists develop a high-precision router Your next router will know where you're sitting. A team of researchers from two Madrid universities - Polytechnic (UPM) and Carlos III (UC3M) - has developed a prototype router with high positioning accuracy that allows them to know the exact location of a mobile phone.

Social Sciences - 12.02.2024
Energy poverty in Cañada Real
Energy poverty in Cañada Real
Some 4,000 people in Madrid, almost half of the inhabitants of La Cañada Real, have experienced a situation of extreme energy poverty.

Campus - 01.02.2024
A report analyses the Spanish films and series available on the main US video services
A report analyses the Spanish films and series available on the main US video services
The US video-on-demand company with the largest number of Spanish films and series in its catalogue is Prime Video (751 titles), followed by Netflix (575), HBO Max (196), Disney+ (116) and Apple TV+ (3). This data comes from a report carried out by researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) that analyses the availability and prominence of Spanish audiovisual works, in 2023, in these five US subscription video on demand (SVOD) services operating in Spain.

Economics - Career - 30.01.2024
Family businesses lay off fewer workers, according to a study
Family businesses have stronger incentives to avoid practices such as workforce reductions, which can damage their emotional attachment and negatively affect their reputation and image in the community. This is one of the conclusions of an international research project, in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has participated, which explores whether family-controlled firms offer greater job security compared to non-family firms.

Media - Health - 18.01.2024
Young Spaniards trust science less than older people
Research by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) that analyses how Spaniards kept themselves informed during the COVID-19 pandemic and their

Health - Life Sciences - 17.01.2024
Microbe discovered which prevents mosquitoes from harbouring malaria parasite
Microbe discovered which prevents mosquitoes from harbouring malaria parasite
Scientific research, in which a researcher from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has participated, has identified a bacteria that prevents the malaria parasite from completing its cycle inside mosquitoes. This advance, recently published in the journal Science, could provide an additional weapon against the spread of malaria in the world.

Health - 17.01.2024
Microbe found to prevent mosquitoes from harboring malaria parasite
Scientific research, in which a researcher from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has participated, has identified a bacterium that prevents the malaria parasite from completing its cycle inside mosquitoes. This advance, recently published in the journal Science, could provide an additional weapon against the spread of malaria in the world.

Law - Politics - 20.12.2023
Study analyses crimes against nature and their consequences
The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has prepared a study approaching crimes against nature from the perspective of international law. This article takes the war in Iraq between 2014 and 2017 as a reference and has been published in the international scientific journal Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.

Social Sciences - Career - 27.11.2023
A new study analyses how we choose friends at school
A new study analyses how we choose friends at school
Similarity is not the key, according to this research which UC3M is taking part in Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and Loyola University have discovered that personality does not seem to have much influence when it comes to choosing social friendships at school, which are based more on the closeness of our contacts, according to a study recently published in the journal PNAS.

Health - Social Sciences - 20.11.2023
The economic damage of a pandemic is inevitable, but targeted interventions can save more lives and lessen its social impact
According to an international scientific study in which the universities of Zaragoza and Carlos III de Madrid are participating 11/20/23 In order to minimise the impact of a pandemic on the economy, which would be more effective: a lockdown or letting individuals spontaneously reduce their risk of infection? Research recently published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour by Spanish scientists suggests that these two widely debated options lead to similar outcomes; that is, the economy will always be damaged, but at least a lockdown will save more lives.

Physics - Materials Science - 15.11.2023
New experimental technique developed to analyse the protection of 3D printed metal structures
New experimental technique developed to analyse the protection of 3D printed metal structures
Scientists from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the IMDEA Materiales Institute have developed a new experimental technique in fragmentation tests to evaluate the energy absorption capacity in the event of impact of metallic structures manufactured using 3D printing. This technique, which is more flexible, simpler and faster than others currently used, makes it possible to test the mechanical performance of these materials as protective structures.

Physics - Research Management - 06.11.2023
38 UC3M researchers among the most influential in the world according to the Stanford ranking
The latest edition of the "Ranking of the World Scientists: World's Top 2% Scientists", known as the Stanford Ranking, which identifies the world's best researchers based on the citations of their

Computer Science - 30.10.2023
Alarming privacy and security threats in Smart Homes
A group of researchers from several international universities and research centres analyze the local network interactions of IoT devices and mobile apps, and demonstrate that a variety of security and Smart Homes: Trusted and Secure Environments? Smart homes are becoming increasingly interconnected, comprising an array of consumer-oriented IoT devices ranging from smartphones and smart TVs to virtual assistants and CCTV cameras.

Health - Computer Science - 31.07.2023
Deep learning method developed to understand how chronic pain affects each patient’s body
A research team from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), together with University College London in the United Kingdom, has carried out a study to analyse how chronic pain affects each patient's body. Within this framework, a deep learning method has been developed to analyse the biometric data of people with chronic conditions.