What if “junk DNA” hides highly ordered patterns essential for life? IRB molecular biologists discovered previously unreported macro-dyad symmetries in repetitive DNA of the Tribolium madens, offering new insight into chromosome organization and cell division. DOI: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

🐜 What does really happen behind the scenes of Science is Wonderful!? In a EU-LIFE blog, Marko Košiček @institutrb.bsky.social, explains why visibility is a shared responsibility in science and how outreach can spark curiosity, connect researchers & open dialogue with policymakers 📖 bit.ly/4vqTMfo

From AI to data analysis, big computing powers modern research—but at what cost to the planet? Join SC4RC expert panel to discuss the environmental footprint of hardware and energy use, and how we’re fixing it. Join live today at 19 CEST! www.youtube.com/live/JQbdZ7m...

Environmental Impacts of Big Computing

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RBI scientists reveal how ACRC acts as molecular scissors, protecting DNA in the earliest hours of embryo development. doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

A new computer model by #RBI scientist Dr Nina Marn reconstructs the full life cycle of the leatherback turtle, the world’s largest sea turtle, and shows that even small changes in food availability and ocean temperature can reduce its reproductive success. doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

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...

Polar chromosomes are rescued from missegregation by spindle elongation-driven microtubule pivoting - Nature Communications

Polar chromosomes in human cells are prone to late alignment and segregation errors. Here, the authors show that spindle elongation rescues them by repositioning astral microtubules via a pivoting mec...

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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. 🧪🛡️

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. t.co/4eN616UmxX

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...

Unprecedented warming and salinization observed in the deep Adriatic

The deep Southern Adriatic is a Mediterranean region highly sensitive to climate change, influenced by dense water cascading from the northern Adriatic and heat/salt transport from the Eastern Medite...

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🎥 #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...

Kvantna kriptografija, slučajnost i kvantna računala - Mario Stipčević | O zakonima prirode #3

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🌊 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.

⚡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

📣 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...