Oceans between one and two billion years ago may have contained more nitrogen than previously thought, allowing marine organisms to proliferate at a time when multi-cellularity and eukaryotic life first emerged.
The UAB has signed a collaboration agreement with Thompson Rivers University in which students enrolled in the degrees of Biology, Microbiology and Chemistry can follow part of their studies in Canada, and vice versa, and then obtain a degree from both institutions.
Once again, the UAB is organising its Open Days to make its academic programmes known to future students, who will be able to download information on scholarships and aids, international mobility and internships in companies.
The UAB will be the only retransmission point in Catalonia of the Women in Data Science conference, celebrated at Stanford University and simultaneously at 25 other locations around the globe on 3 February.
This year, the UAB will offer new Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC), available on Coursera, the world's leading platform for online courses. The four new courses focus on persuasion, finances, sustainability and heritage of the Valley of the Kings.
In the past report "Indicadors Bibliomètrics de l’Activitat Científica Espanyola 2005-2014" by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, the UAB was listed as the second university in Spain after the UB in number of cited publications.
Students from the degree in Physics recently won two of the three gold medals and three silver medals of the total of 34 medals awarded in the competition. A total of 197 teams from around the world participated.
Researchers at the Institut de Neurociències describe a protein responsible for associative memory which is disrupted in patients suffering from Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.