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Professor of Ecology and Soil Science at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM)

Assistant lecturer and researcher at the Department of Agricultural Production

Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering and Biosciences

Researcher at the Research Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks (CEIGRAM) 

Full professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid in the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences – INEF

Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and former President of the International Glaciological Society.

Director of the GESPLAN research group at the Polytechnic University of Madrid

Researcher at the Department of Industrial Chemical Engineering and the Environment of the School of Industrial Engineering.

Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Technologies at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM)

President of the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies (COSCE) and emeritus professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid

Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Biomedical Informatics Group at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI), and Corresponding Member of the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain

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Research published in Nature shows that the Eurasian ice sheet may have retreated up to 600 metres a day on the Norwegian continental shelf during the last deglaciation at the end of the last Ice Age, around 20,000 years ago. This would indicate that retreat rates in this region may have far exceeded previous estimates and would be much greater than any observed from satellites. According to the authors, the research "is a warning from the past about the rate at which ice sheets are physically capable of retreating".

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Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have announced the success of an experiment at their National Ignition Facility. With analysis of the results still underway, it would be the first net energy gain from a nuclear fusion. The news was revealed on Sunday by the Financial Times newspaper with information provided by sources with knowledge of the experiment.

Congreso

The extraordinary plenary session of the Congress of Deputies today approved the reform of the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation. After being passed in the Lower House without any votes against it on 23 June, the bill was approved in the Senate on 20 July with an amendment referring to indefinite-term contracts, which was rejected today in Congress.