New findings by a UAB team at the archaeological site of Tell Lashkir, in northeastern Iraq, demonstrate that, some 5,000 years ago, their Bronze Age inhabitants were deeply involved in supplying bitumen to the bustling cities in the south through Mesopotamian trade...
Researchers at the IRTA-UAB Joint Research Unit in Animal Health have developed and validated a technique for the culture of llama respiratory tissue that permits to study why camelids overcome infection caused by MERS-CoV without...
Indigenous communities are an essential source of environmental information and knowledge, but using such knowledge in scientific monitoring may aggravate colonial injustices. A research team, coordinated by ICREA Research Professor Victoria...
To what extent do workers, after taking a virtual training course provided by their companies, apply the...
The subsoil of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile stores large masses of water and rich deposits of mineral resources exploited by private companies, with highly lax regulations that represent a threat to the water reserves. UAB researchers lived with...
Coordination polymers are highly interesting compounds with a large variety of structures and multiple applications. Researchers from the Department of Chemistry have managed to characterize and analyze four zinc-based coordination...
The Lightning Network (LN) is a payment network that can operate on top of Bitcoin and could potentially process countless payments simultaneously. But it is vulnerable. UAB researchers have detected that it is possible to carry out an attack that blocks...
Oocytes can be vitrified for the conservation of animal genetic resources and for the preservation of fertility in women, but the process presents some difficulties. Researchers from the Department of...
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the UAB, Batallé Group and INNOVACC cluster, are part of the Consortium to carry out the aWISH project, dedicated to pork welfare, and participate in one of the 6 pilot groups of the initiative.
The hydrogen cell can be the source of clean energy that replaces fossil fuels, but the component where the chemical reactions take place, the catalyst, requires the use of platinum, a very expensive material. Researchers from the Department of Physics, in collaboration with a research team...
