According to an ICTA-UAB thesis, the key to the efficiency of rainwater harvesting systems lies in the savings on detergent and fabric softeners that they allow. Households with rainwater harvesting systems save over 5 Euros on every 10 wash cycles.
From 26 to 30 October UAB is holding its Sustainable and Safe Mobility Week, for the whole university community: different activities to raise awareness of more sustainable ways of getting around.
A study in which the UAB is involved will investigate whether assistance with the transition into the community for people who have served a prison sentence improves reintegration levels. Members of the university community can take part as mentors during the final months of the sentence and the first few months on release.
UAB researchers have succeeded in characterising and cultivating, for the first time in Europe, a bacterium of the genus Dehalogenimonas, which transforms certain toxic organochlorine compounds into others that are harmless, thus opening the door to their production and application to contaminated aquifers.
The UAB is in 165th position in the world on the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, published by National Taiwan University (NTU).
Researchers from the UAB have found that the structure of translocations in cancer cells shows that chromosomes are formed by thin plates of chromatin.
