Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences (Cambridge University Press, October 2018) is a new book written by ICREA Research Professor Jeroen van den Bergh of at ICTA-UAB. It offers a...
An international team of paleontologists including Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia, associated researcher at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and a renowned pterosaur specialists, have described the over 200-million-year-old new species Caelestiventus...
For the first time, researchers of the Composting Research Group (GICOM) have achieved flower aromas of roses, hyacinths or jasmine from agroindustrials residues using solid-state fermentation technology (SSF) and microorganisms that have the ability to transform...
Tackling bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics poses one of the greatest challenges to the pharmaceutical industry. In particular, bacterial infection caused by biofilm-forming...
From the Chemistry Department of the UAB, has been studied the reactivity of ligands with Cu(II) to form supramolecular structures held by weak interactions as well as compounds with pores or channels in their interior, to be used as porous materials.
As countries develop the percentage of population living in urban areas tends to increase. As this happens, income inequality is expected first to increase and then to decline in what is known as the Kuznets inverted‐U. But, what about the role of the absolute size of cities in...
The Research Group on Stress and Health, has investigated whether the ocular system, regulated by the same neural mechanisms as the arteries, also suffers the phenomenon known as white coat hypertension in its intraocular pressure.
The Centre for Demographic Studies (UAB), in collaboration with the Global Data Lab from the University of Radboud has presented the Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI), which shows, through sociodemographical information, the socio-economic development...
A team from the Plant Physiology Laboratory from the UAB Ecology and Animal & Vegetal Biology and Ecology has studied through proteomic analysis the mechanisms by which the species Urochloa decumbens has an...
An study fruit of collaboration between CRESA-IRTA (UAB), the Montreal University, the Hospital de Bellvitge and the Servei d’Ecopatologia de Fanuna Salvatge (UAB) has assessed the public health risk in relation to the...
