Scientists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute, IRB, in collaboration with a team from the United Kingdom, have discovered new details about how melanoma cells, one of the most dangerous types of skin cancer, attach to the tissue around them and what may prompt them to start moving.

New research by scientists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute shows that charge transport in zeolites can be tuned by controlling particle size and water content. The findings open new opportunities for exploring their use in sustainable functional materials, for example in sensors and other systems where controlled ion transport is essential. 

The Ruđer Bošković Institute, IRB, as one of the key coordinators of the regional EIT Water CLC South centre, took part in Zadar in the first operational workshop of the European EIT Water community, which marked the beginning of a new phase in developing strategic guidelines, future programmes and innovation solutions for the protection of water, seas and marine ecosystems.

Dr. Neven Cukrov, Scientific Adviser at the Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Traces, Division for Marine and Environmental Research of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, has been appointed to the Group of Experts for the fourth cycle of the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects. 

Every summer, we take dozens of photos by the sea. Sunsets, beaches, waterfronts, coffees, boats, plates of food, feet in the shallows. Most of these photos remain forgotten in our phone galleries. Today in Rovinj, on World Ocean Day, scientists from the Centre for Marine Research of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, IRB, launched a campaign that turns this everyday habit into something useful for science.

Molecular biologists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute, IRB, working in the Laboratory for Noncoding DNA, have described a previously unrecorded mode of organisation of repetitive DNA in the genome of the black flour beetle, Tribolium madens, in a paper published in Genome Biology. 

Prof. Iva Tolić, PhD, a leading molecular biologist and tenured senior research adviser at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, has been elected a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Natural Sciences.

As a Master of Chemistry and an assistant in the Laboratory for the Synthesis of New Materials at the Division of Materials Chemistry of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Mia studies materials whose significance is not measured by their size, but by their potential to one day find application in more sustainable electronics. In recognition of her work to date and the promise she has shown, she is this year’s recipient of the fellowship awarded through the national L’Oréal–UNESCO “For Women in Science” programme.

Dr Blaženka Melić, a senior research scientist with tenure at the Ruđer Bošković Institute and a full professor by title at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, has received the City of Zagreb Award for her outstanding contribution to science, particularly in the field of theoretical particle physics.

IRB scientist Dr. Suzana Szilner, Head of the Laboratory for Nuclear Physics at the Division of Experimental Physics of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, has received the Award of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts for the highest scientific achievements in 2025 in the field of mathematical, physical and chemical sciences.