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    IAC scientists detect a ‘sub-Earth’ orbiting Barnard’s star, the nearest isolated star to the Sun
    The single star nearest to the Sun is called Barnard’s star. A team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has recently detected...
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    IAC Scientists have characterized over 200 new clusters of galaxies first detected by the Planck satellite using the telescopes on La Palma
    An international team led by the group of Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), including researchers from the...
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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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    IAC scientists publish in Nature Astronomy a practical guide to improve proposals and applications
    Científicos del IAC publican en Nature Astronomy una guía práctica para mejorar propuestas y solicitudes
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    IAC technology is the key to the Spanish project which will ensure the secrecy of quantum communications by satellite
    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias is designing and developing, as ordered by the Spanish company Thales Alenia Space , the adaptive optics which will be...
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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...