Science's structures (2021)

Op-Ed articles

Editorial

Martí Domínguez

COVID-19: A forest fire rather than a wave?

Elena Semino

Documentary texts

On Big Data: How should we make sense of them?

Fulvio Mazzocchi

Tsunamis, waves, Quixotes, and KO-vid: Metaphors about the pandemic as seen in cartoons

Laura Filardo-Llamas

The plants of the future. Genome editing in biotechnology

José Pío Beltrán

Plants on demand: Genome editing for plant improvement

Concha Gómez-Mena

From farmers to bioengineers: Sowing genes, harvesting molecules

Diego Orzáez

Producing more food in a sustainable way is possible: Biotechnological and sustainable fertilisation as a way to face population growth

Juan Carlos del Pozo

Designing disease-resistant crops: From basic knowledge to biotechnology

Selena Giménez-Ibánez

Space explorers need to be space farmers: What we know and what we need to know about plant growth in space

F. Javier Medina

Standards. The building blocks of complexity

Juli Peretó, Manuel Porcar

When biology became engineering: Adopting standards for living systems

Victor de Lorenzo

Can life be standardized? Current challenges in biological standardization

Juli Peretó, Manuel Porcar

Standardisation and social ordering: A change of perspective

Pablo Schyfter

The long and winding road: Accidents and tinkering in software standardization

Sergi Valverde

Towards the right standards: The intersection of open science, responsible research and innovation, and standards

Michele S. Garfinkel

Good to eat. Food and health at a time of information overload

Gonzalo Casino, Montserrat Rabassa

Feeding, cooking, sharing: A brief social history of food

Patricia Marcela Aguirre

Diet-disease relationships: Recent advances in nutritional epidemiology

Raul Zamora-Ros, Carlos Alberto González

Disentangling nutrition facts from fiction: Towards healthy and sustainable consumption in industrialized societies

Clara Gómez-Donoso, Miguel A. Martínez-González, Maira Bes-Rastrollo

Educational tools for better eating: Origin and evolution of dietary guidelines in Catalonia

Maria Manera, Gemma Salvador

Diet, drugs, and the brain: Are ultra-processed foods a gateway to addiction?

M Carmen Blanco-Gandia, Macarena Gonzalez-Portilla, Marta Rodriguez-Arias

Miracle diets: When eating guidelines cause health problems

Jose Miguel Soriano del Castillo, M. Inmaculada Zarzo Llobell

Evidence-based nutritional guidelines: What is meant by trustworthy recommendations

Joanna Zając, Paulina Głodo, Małgorzata M Bała

Oceans. The impact of global change on the sea

Carles Pedrós-Alió, Josep Maria Gasol i Piqué, Rafel Simó i Martorell

Beyond global warming: Stressed oceans, globe-wide in the Anthropocene

Carles Pelejero, Eva Calvo

Sea-level rise: Which is the role of glaciers and polar ice sheets?

Francisco José Navarro

Invisible pollution: Emerging marine pollutants

Belen Gonzalez-Gaya

How much warmer is the Mediterranean becoming? Thirty-five years of satellite observations

María José López García

Toxic microalgae and global change: Why have proliferations increased along the Mediterranean coast?

Magda Vila, Jordi Camp, Elisa Berdalet

Saving the pharmacy of the sea: How does global change affect species with bioactive potential in the Mediterranean?

Arnau Carreño, Àngel Izquierdo-Font, Josep Lloret