When summer arrives, excavation works are resumed at the Neolithic site under the lake of Banyoles. It is one of the only three of its kind in the world. Discovered 25 years ago, this site is a window open to life in a Neolithic village. Research there is complemented with a program of activities that enable the discovery of this Millenary past.

The citizens in Barcelona can know about their distant past through this scientific dissemination project.

This joint project of the CSIC and Lauda Música is aiming at recovering musical heritage and rescue from oblivion many works found in libraries and archives throughout Spain. The latest record is dedicated to Alonso Lobo, one of the masters of Renaissance.

Does economical inequality lead to social conflict? Is it possible to measure the factors lead drive to conflict? Is it possible to develop tools to avoid or to minimize it? Scientists at the CSIC's Instituto de Análisis Económico (IAE) work to analyze the social factors that increase the probability and severity of social conflicts.

Garlic mustard was used as a spice 7,000 years ago, as archeologists from England, Spain, Denmark and Germany found out. The scientists have analyzed microfossils of food deposits from pots found at three archeological sites: Akonge and Steno (Denmark) and Neustadt (Germany).

Historians at the Institución Milà y Fontanals are working to recover Francisco Hernandez’s works. Hernandez, who was a naturalist and physician in the Court of Philip II of Spain, is the author of the biggest compilation known of America’s fauna and flora.

Arqueólogos encuentran evidencias del uso de plátano hace 4.000 años en zonas donde este fruto no es natural ni se cultivaba entonces. El hallazgo replantea aspectos sobre las relaciones sociales de aquellas comunidades.

Se acaba de presentar "Joan Pau Pujol (1570-1626). Música para el Corpus (LAU 007), un nuevo disco de la colección Música Poética del CSIC, fruto del trabajo del departamento de musicología de la Institución Milá y Fontanals (CSIC) y el grupo La Grande Chapelle, dirigido por Albert Recasens, y el grupo vocal Schola Antiqua, dirigido por Juan Carlos Asensio.