As a part of the activities of the UAB Year of Evolution, The faculties of Biosciences and Sciences have held a conference on Prebiotic Evolution. The event included various seminars and the inauguration of the reproduction of the Miller-Urey apparatus, that has been set up...
A multidisciplinary research group has been awarded with a presitigius international prize. Their work consisted in to developed a satellites image fusion technique. This equipment, in wich he UAB collaborated, has win the 2006 Data Contest "Fusion of Multispectral and Panchromatic Images", organized by the Technical Committee of the IEEE...
The UAB has taken part in a research project that has just made a discovery which questions one of the paradigms of vertebrate immunology, by which phagocytosis (the ability to ”ingest” and destroy microbes) is exercised mainly by...
A study carried out by the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, undertaken by Alistair Jump, a postdoctoral researcher, and Josep Peñuelas, research professor at the CREAF...
A set of wooden carvings found inside the Mussol cave, in Ciutadella of Menorca, Spain, has enabled archaeologists to improve the knowledge on the mythology and rituals on the island during prehistoric periods. The most important findings were two small carvings that are the only ones with documented human characteristics in the archaeology of...
The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UAB is coordinating a European project which enables the interpretation of Magnetic Resonance spectroscopes. Thanks to this initiative we have create a database, managed by the UAB and which is available on the...
UAB scientists have participated in a international cooperation project in order to study the phenomenon of the El Niño and its impact on surrounding vegetation. Investigators studied the relationship between the development of two species (pallida Prosopis and Prosopis chilensis) and the cycles of the El Niño (who has a very variable intensity)....
In a recent expedition to Menorca, a team of anthropologists from the UAB Biological Anthropology Unit studied human remains from around 3000 years ago in a sepulchral cave, the Cova des Pas.
In the figure of the left you will notice that the circles move. Well, what you see is not true. What happens is a visual illusion that is being produced right now in your head. A group of researchers at the Department of Basic, Evolutionary and Educational Psychology is studying our...
Doctor Carlos Margarit, head of the Adult and Paediatric Liver Transplant Program at Vall d'Hebron Hospital, died last December as a result of an accident while out trecking in the mountains. Dr Itxarone Bilbao, who worked with him for 15 years, reviews his life and his achievements in this article.
