Notícies
How European vineyards dodged a devastating American disease
Oct. 15, 2024
Study reveals how Europe escaped Pierce's disease and warns of increasing risk due to climate change A team of researchers, including researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC), has revealed the reasons why European vineyards escaped the devastating Pierce's disease, caused by the …
Breaking the Barrier: Engineered Dissipation to Overcome Barren Plateaus in Quantum Algorithms
Oct. 7, 2024
A team of researchers from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) has unveiled a groundbreaking approach to tackle one of the most significant challenges in quantum computing: barren plateaus. This phenomenon severely restricts the performance of variational …
Signed networks model enhances understanding of global conflicts and alliances
Sept. 9, 2024
Researchers at IFISC and the University of Milano-Bicocca develop a model using signed networks to understand international relations.The study, published in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, proposes a local balance index to evaluate countries' contributions to global stability.The …
Climate change boosts olive tree-devouring bacteria in the Mediterranean
June 3, 2024
New research focuses on the impact of global warming on infection of European vineyards by Xylella fastidiosa under different climatic scenarios.Xylella fastidiosa, the deadly disease-causing bacterium that has already wiped out millions of plants of emblematic Mediterranean crops, like grapewines, …
New research proposes using mathematical tool to decipher complex social dynamics
May 31, 2024
Researchers at the Institute of Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems develop a model that characterises the dynamics of group interactions The study, published in ‘Nature Communications’, uses temporal hypergraphs to study how conversation groups form in different social contexts Traditional …
Understanding the energy costs of computing
May 15, 2024
Researchers from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) UIB-CSIC (Mallorca, Spain), the University of Colorado, the Santa Fe Institute, and the The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), have made advancements that refine our fundamental …
La Resistència Científica 2.0 is back!
April 4, 2024
The CSIC Delegation in the Balearic Islands and IFISC present at CaixaForum Palma the cycle La Resistència Científica 2.0, a late night science show in which specialists from various research centers in the Balearic Islands will make relevant aspects of …
IFISC (UIB-CSIC) research on Quantum Reservoir Computing is highlighted by the editorial staff of Optics Express
Feb. 27, 2024
An IFISC study, published in Optics Express and featured as an Editor's Pick, reveals the potential of quantum squeezing in the machine learning architecture known as Reservoir Computing. A recent article published by IFISC researchers in Optics Express, entitled "Squeezing …
A mathematical model characterizes different diseases caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa
Feb. 6, 2024
Researchers at the Institute of Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC, UIB-CSIC) have developed a mathematical model that characterizes the different diseases caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa.Xylella fastidiosa, a major plant pathogenic bacterium, has emerged as a global threat …
Ocean wave reflection by seagrass patterns may protect coasts against flooding
Dec. 21, 2023
New study shows that spatial patterns in seagrass meadows such as Posidonia oceanica can be explained by the interaction of seagrass growth and ocean wave reflection.The researchers propose that this mechanism may improve the capacity of these coastal ecosystems to …