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Surviving and emerging victorious in the age of artificial intelligence
Antoni Garrell reflects on the profound changes being generated by the transition to a disruptive digital age in his speech, “La segona revolució digital: L’economia digital i la intel·ligència artificial ens estan conduint a una nova era de la humanitat?”
Europe’s role in the new international order
Alfredo Rocafort, Carlo Morabito, Federico González Santoyo, and Michael Metzeltin participated in the twentieth edition of the RACEF International Seminar in Barcelona, held under the general title “Un nuevo proyecto europeo para un nuevo orden mundial”
The role of the king in a democracy
Daniel Berzosa outlines the powers of the King under the Spanish Constitution and current institutional practice in the article “Las funciones de un rey en una monarquía parlamentaria: ¿qué puede y qué no puede hacer?”
Marita Souto receives the 2025 Torques de Honra
Marita Souto is awarded the Torques de Honra prize in recognition of her career in the chemical-analytical study of thermal and mineral-medicinal waters, especially those of the province of Ourense
The oversimplification and biases of the Nutri-Score labelling system
In his report, “Nutri-Score labels under academic review: ‘It doesn’t consider all food components and has biases,'” Rafael Urrialde denounces the biases of this food rating system, warning that it doesn’t consider all nutritional components
Tarragona shows its strength
Santiago Castellà has been elected president of Barcelona-Catalunya Centre Logístic, an organization that brings together the main players in Catalonia’s industrial and logistics sector, and whose primary objective is to improve competitiveness and promote the region as a Euro-Mediterranean logistics hub
Letters that should not be published
Javier López-Galiacho reflects on the limits of the right to privacy in the article “Cartas que no se deben publicar: reflexiones sobre la divulgación por Isabel Preysler de las cartas íntimas de Vargas Llosa”
The fight against anti-vaxxers, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
José Antonio López Guerrero presents, in different neighborhoods of Madrid, the exhibition “Why are vaccines so important?”
Vaccines and health: an interdisciplinary challenge
The crucial importance of vaccination campaigns and the necessary fight, based on scientific arguments, against the growing anti-vaccine movement in the session
Old and new Europe and the ghosts of the past
Teresa Freixes reflects on current Spanish and international politics in her latest articles: “La Comisión de Venecia se posiciona claramente”, “Del discurso del odio al delito del odio”, “Puro relato, puro teatro”, “Bajo la bota”, “Moción de censura instrumental: no es tan fácil”, “Se creen Mandela” and “9 de noviembre: aniversario de la caída del muro de Berlín”
Pilar Bayer, a teacher of teachers
Pilar Bayer is awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Exceptional women in life and work
The “Exceptional Women” collection by Paula Plaza, a scientific illustrator, exhibited during the 41st Conference on Teaching and Learning Mathematics, rescues from oblivion and dignifies the figures of women who have transformed history in various fields. It recreates the complex work of pioneers such as Hypatia of Alexandria, Sophie Germain, and the contemporary Maryam Mirzakhani, among many others
