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    IAC Scientists participate in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to study an old asteroid
    The launch of the OSIRIS-REx probe, planned for 8th September, will study Bennu, one of the oldest asteroids in the Solar System. It could yield clues to its...
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    IACTec a step nearer
    June 5th saw the stone laying ceremony of the Science and Technology Area (“Polo Científico y Tecnológico") in La Laguna, Tenerife, where the buildings of this...
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    IACTEC and the prompt detection of a diabetic foot
    The technology which is used in astrophysics research is useful not only in space; many of the sophisticated techniques can be put to very good use in the field...
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    IACTEC develops a model to simulate pathologies of a diabetic foot
    Today, November 14th, World Diabetes Day, the programme of IACTEC-Medical Technology of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) dedicated to the transfer...
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    IACTEC develops a system which can analyze subcutaneous tissues for early detection of illnesses
    The first tests of a concept using microwave radiometry have yielded promising results for the measurement of subcutaneous temperatures in biological tissues...
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    IACTEC: commited to technological training
    Since it started in 2017 this technological and business unit of the IAC has hosted over 20 university students for short term stays. Thanks to this training...
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    IAU Symposium: Professional and Amateur astronomers, united in the same cause
    During the past week over a hundred specialists from all over the world have been meeting in La Laguna to discuss the study, in different areas of astrophysics...
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    Ice and organic compounds found on the surface of the asteroid Themis
    A thin layer of ice and complex organic molecules covers the surface the asteroid Themis (the largest of a family of asteroids to which it gives its name), a...
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    Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizations
    A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of a study with proposals for “technosignatures” -evidence for the use of...