Luxembourg donor gives stem cells to two-year-old with leukaemia
Registered as a potential donor for around eight years, a father from Weicherdange was a match for a sick little boy and donated bone marrow.
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Vëlosummer breaks record in 2026 with more than 50,000 bikes on Luxembourg’s roads
The 7th edition of the initiative that reserves roads for cyclists during the summer recorded 50,161 bikes on its 14 circuits, 15% more than in 2025.
Spain leads the world in kidney and lung transplants
In 2025, the country carried out 4,000 kidney transplants and 556 lung transplants and was once again a global benchmark for organ donation from deceased donors.
Barcelona opens Spain’s most advanced facility for quantum chips
The new quantum nanofabrication area at CSIC's IMB-CNM received more than €6 million and features the most advanced electron-beam lithography system in the country.
CSIC researchers create zinc-air batteries up to 80% more powerful
A Barcelona team has shown that small loose conductive pieces inside the battery reduce internal resistance, overturning an idea accepted for decades.
Spain gains 77 new bone marrow donors a day in 2026
The Spanish bone marrow donor registry now exceeds 532,000 people, and actual donations have increased fourteenfold since 2012.
Renaturalised rambla in Torre-Pacheco protects more than 8,600 residents from flooding
The restoration of 1.4 kilometres of the Rambla Sur, in Murcia, has returned the channel to its natural functioning and created a floodable park open to the public.
Angola launches new round of polio vaccination for 9.2 million children
The third round of the national campaign covered children up to the age of five, with door-to-door vaccination and fixed posts, mobilising more than 72,000 people.
Angolan schools to accept enrolment of children without documents
The Ministry of Education has ruled that public and private schools must enrol pupils without identification, so that lack of registration does not keep them out of education.
Angola prepares project that protects nature to prevent pandemics
The Angolan government and UNDP met in Luanda to design the Nature4Health project, which aims to curb diseases by tackling their environmental causes.
Angola performs its first robotic kidney surgeries with Angolan doctors
A team of Angolan doctors, supervised by a Brazilian surgeon, operated on the first kidney patients in Luanda using a surgical robot.
Angonabeiro advanced $1.5 million to Angolan coffee growers
The Angolan subsidiary of the Nabeiro group provided advance financing to coffee growers in the last season, to support field preparation and boost production.