Why haven’t perovskite solar cells taken over the market yet? A new paper in Nature Energy shows that the problem is not a single “culprit,” but a chain of interconnected chemical processes that gradually undermine cell stability.
@natenergy.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Your cells divided thousands of times today. Most chromosomes landed where they should, but some got stuck.
New #RBI research reveals how cells rescue trapped chromosomes during division, and why cancer cells often fail at it.
📄 Published today in @natcomms.nature.com
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
New research by a Croatian multidisciplinary team shows that Parkinson’s disease is linked to measurable changes in specific immune cells in the blood. Key bioinformatics analysis was carried out at the Ruđer Bošković Institute.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
What if one fabric could resist fire, block UV, and fight bacteria all at once? RBI researchers are making it happen through the NATO SPS-funded SAFEGUARD project. Better protection for soldiers, firefighters, and medics. 🧪🛡️
What they learned:
1) the reaction starts only when a hit is strong enough to crack the crystal (a “threshold” event)
2) the process moves forward in jumps, each strong hit adds a small step
3) a tiny amount of water can help, but too much can slow/stop the reaction
Mechanochemistry is doing chemistry by smashing and grinding powders (often with little/no solvent), like in a ball mill.
A team from RBI and @fau.de used computer simulations to watch a single impact like an ultra-slow-motion replay at the atomic level.
Applications open for the JIC–IRB Summer School on Microbial Specialised Metabolites (from genome to molecule) in Dubrovnik (IUC), 12–20 Sep 2026. Lectures + hands-on computational analysis of natural product gene clusters. Apply by 23 Jan 2026.
45 years of Martinska! IRB’s field station near Šibenik is our window into the Adriatic: a rare freshwater–brackish–seawater interface, long-term monitoring, and data that inform real decisions—from biodiversity and fisheries to planning and climate adaptation. Wishing Martinska continued success!
Speeding up the search for cancer therapies: how computational modeling helps researchers spot the strongest drug candidates first.
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When Cocco talks, climate walks.
#InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #InternationalCoccoDay
These microscopic workers keep our oceans thriving and our climate stable. They've earned their day.
Join the initiative by sharing this post and using #CoccolithophoreDay. Help us get recognition for the organisms that have been shaping Earth's climate since long before humans existed.
Why do they deserve recognition?
They capture CO2 and build ocean ecosystems. They're sensitive to climate change and when they falter, it's an early warning for our planet. Almost no one knows them, yet their impact is global.
Now we are making things right. @Ruđer Bošković Institute @marescience.bsky.social @heriotwattuni.bsky.social International Nannoplankton Association Norce are jointly proposing to make October 10 International Coccolithophore Day!
For a week, we've been dropping hints. Today, you meet coccolithophores.
They've been working without recognition for millions of years, building calcium plate shells, producing oxygen, capturing atmospheric carbon. Their blooms are visible from space, yet most people have never heard of them.
In a world visible only under a microscope, a story unfolds that's changing our planet.
Like grains of sand that build beaches, these microscopic organisms are constructing something far greater.
Follow us and reveal the secret heroes.
Illustrations by Rosie Sheward.
The deep Adriatic is warming fast. IRB scientists new paper published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters states that temperature and salinity levels expected by 2100 are already here. #ClimateScience
doi.org/10.1002/lol2...
🎥 #PeopleBehindTheScience episode 3 is here!
Meet Jelena Bujan from Institut Ruđer Bošković, an ecologist who works in the wild. 🛶 Boat trips, 🐜 ant studies, 🌳 tree climbing: this is science in action.
Watch her video 👇
#FrontierResearch #Ecology @jelenabujan.bsky.social 🌍
New year, new beginnings:
✅join Bluesky
✅do something important
✅write the first post about it
This year started with a great workshop in Rome in January. February is reserved for internal trainings in Zagreb and Rijeka. And the exciting month of March is just around the corner.
Kvantna kriptografija, slučajnost i kvantna računala, komplicirano za ponedjeljak? Ne brinite, komplicirano je i ostalim danima u tjednu. 🤯🔐
Srećom, dr. Mario Stipčević sve to objašnjava jednostavno i razumljivo, u podcastu Promocije znanosti - www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fhL...
Project #POLLMAR is turning jars into oceans to study climate-pollen-sea links. Funded by @HrzzHrvatska. More: t.ly/pUYD_ #ScienceForTheSea #ClimateChange #BlueScience
🌊 Why is the Adriatic turning yellow every spring? Not pollution — it’s pollen. And thanks to scientists @institutrb.bsky.social + partners, we’re finding out how it affects marine life.
Pavel Tomančák and Pavel Plevka, Directors of CEITEC.
⚡The #EULIFE2025 Community Meeting just kicked off!! ⚡
Pavel Tomančák @paveltomancak.bsky.social and Pavel Plevka, Directors of @ceitec.eu, welcomed all to #Brno with a powerful message and presented #CEITEC and its latest achievements.
#EuropeanResearch #EUcompetitiveness #Widening
Press release - The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) has signed a partnership agreement with #JEOL EUROPE SAS and SCAN Ltd. to strengthen the capabilities of its Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (#NMR) research.
📰 lnkd.in/esW_YYpj
EU-LIFE welcomes The Francis Crick Institute and the Ruđer Bošković Institute!
📣 We are very proud to welcome the Francis Crick Institute (London, #UK) and the Ruđer Bošković Institute (Zagreb, #Croatia) into the EU-LIFE alliance!
To know more about @crick.ac.uk, #RBI and the expansion of EU-LIFE, check our latest press release ➡️ eu-life.eu/newsroom/new...
