Strategic axis: Frontier Knowledge

Learn about cutting-edge research at UC Chile through news about new discoveries and outstanding researchers in different areas of knowledge.

Lake in the middle of snow-capped mountains

Three faculty urging action to protect the Chilean mountains

a close up view of a dry, cracked ground

How to Deal with the Drought: the Fear of Water Rationing

a close up of a cricket on a spoon

Should we eat bugs? UC Chile researchers develop cricket food

Technology transfer and links within the industry will be the focus during the second phase of the Center for Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies. (Photo: CATA)

Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies, the future of Astronomic Science

The photo shows a group of rat sensory neurons responsible for detecting painful stimuli in the organism. Image credit: Paula Díaz Céspedes.

Amazing Microscope Images taken by Two UC Chile Students Surprise Scientists

Cover page of the political risk index for Latin America in 2022.

Latin America is facing three crises in 2022. Are we prepared to tackle them?

Fisherman with his boat and a bucket with seafood

'Blue food revolution': great way to feed the world without destroying the planet

a row of yellow tents on a wooden walkway at night

UC Chile Atacama Station: A Role Model in the Study of Fog

Atacama desert photo, pink flowers

Why Driest Desert on Earth Sometimes Blooms? And What Secrets Reveals?

Arid hills in the desert

Plants Living on the Edge of Aridity in the Atacama Desert

Frog swimming

UC Chile Researchers Discover Key to Amphibian Spinal Cord Regeneration

Alt: Gloria Montenegro in her laboratory.

Women Scientist Behind the Secrets of Chilean Honey