Scientists at the Centre for Marine Research of the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Rovinj are developing a sustainable fertiliser from the biomass of jellyfish and comb jellies through the NutriGel project, using organisms that, until recently, were mostly associated with problems for fishers and beachgoers.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute is participating in the development of an innovative research platform within the MARBLE Centre of Excellence project, which will support the development of more sustainable, efficient and technologically advanced mariculture.

The final event of the Croatian Quantum Communication Infrastructure project, CroQCI, presented the results of one of Croatia’s most important national advances in the field of secure next-generation communications.

Scientists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute, IRB, in collaboration with a team from the United Kingdom, have discovered new details about how melanoma cells, one of the most dangerous types of skin cancer, attach to the tissue around them and what may prompt them to start moving.

New research by scientists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute shows that charge transport in zeolites can be tuned by controlling particle size and water content. The findings open new opportunities for exploring their use in sustainable functional materials, for example in sensors and other systems where controlled ion transport is essential. 

The Ruđer Bošković Institute, IRB, as one of the key coordinators of the regional EIT Water CLC South centre, took part in Zadar in the first operational workshop of the European EIT Water community, which marked the beginning of a new phase in developing strategic guidelines, future programmes and innovation solutions for the protection of water, seas and marine ecosystems.

Dr. Neven Cukrov, Scientific Adviser at the Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Traces, Division for Marine and Environmental Research of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, has been appointed to the Group of Experts for the fourth cycle of the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects. 

Every summer, we take dozens of photos by the sea. Sunsets, beaches, waterfronts, coffees, boats, plates of food, feet in the shallows. Most of these photos remain forgotten in our phone galleries. Today in Rovinj, on World Ocean Day, scientists from the Centre for Marine Research of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, IRB, launched a campaign that turns this everyday habit into something useful for science.

Molecular biologists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute, IRB, working in the Laboratory for Noncoding DNA, have described a previously unrecorded mode of organisation of repetitive DNA in the genome of the black flour beetle, Tribolium madens, in a paper published in Genome Biology.