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Inside the terraXcube Small Cubes, our researchers investigated whether the colour red makes us perceive temperatures as warmer and blue as cooler, finding that we are less influenced by these colours than previously thought.

Federica Mingolla, Silvia Loreggian, and Anna Torretta, the three alpinists involved in the K2 climbing attempt organized by the CAI (Italian Alpine Club) as part of the K2-70 project, have returned to visit us for the second part of the study on the female body's reactions to high altitude.

The terraXcube was the location of an exercise organised by the mountain rescue service of the financial police (SAGF - Soccorso Alpino Guardia di Finanza) to test the skills of financial police officers in extreme climatic conditions.

Inizia lo studio medico di Eurac Research che accompagna la spedizione femminile sul K2 promossa dal CAI.

Premier Giorgia Meloni on her visit yesterday to Bolzano’s NOI Techpark took the opportunity to visit our terraXcube: a unique infrastructure which can simulate the most extreme climates and all climate scenarios on Earth and one of a kind in Italy.

Le alpiniste a Bolzano prima e dopo il tentativo di scalata per una riesposizione nel terraXcube

South Tyrolean artist Peter Senoner artworks created in the terraXcube under extreme climatic conditions evoke altered habitats and resource scarcity. Three of these pieces are now returning to the terraXcube – permanently.

A prototype radar system that instantly analyzes the composition of the snowpack during melting has recently been tested in terraXcube’s Large Cube. The system called “Snowave” was developed by the University of Pavia’s Microwave Laboratory and later improved and fine-tuned in part by the “CRIOSAR: SAR Applications to the Cryosphere” project funded by the Italian Space Agency with the involvement of the Eurac Research experts.

Over the past few days, two types of MAVTechhttps://www.mavtech.eu/  company drones have been put through their paces to test their usability in high-altitude, complex alpine environments in the terraXcubehttps://terraxcube.eurac.edu/ . It was the first time our Large Cube was used to test drones in free flight.

Climate change and rising temperatures are increasingly pushing animals, plants, and microorganisms to higher altitudes. But how do living beings adapt to new conditions? A study taking place in the terraXcube observes how reduced atmospheric pressure affects photosynthesis and transpiration in plants. And whether soil microorganisms can support this adaptation.

A Eurac Research study on acclimatisation and de-acclimatisation will take place in the terraXcube centre for the simulation of extreme climates.