Anthropogenic fertilization of the Earth, with increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen in-puts, has enhanced plant photosynthesis and carbon sinks of terrestrial ecosystems. Several signals now suggest, however, that this carbon-sink activity is slowing its rate of...
Researchers of the Institut Català de Paleontologia, the UAB, the Naturhistorisches Museum Bern and the Université de Lyon has conducted a paleobiological study on the locomotor diversity of the first euprimates. This work,...
A study with the participation of the Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology of the UAB highlights how important crocodiles are in the ecosystems they inhabit and proposes a new conservation protocol that prioritizes the components...
Recently published research centered on the fossil hippopotamus populations from Europe highlighted the importance of the dispersion and ecological requirements of these forms in relation with fossil hominin dispersals into Europe. The authors...
Study finds trust in key actors in health crisis management, attitudes, information, and conspiratorial beliefs were key to predicting whether young adults refused to be vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These results show that the most relevant key factors are...
Researchers from the IBB-UAB Nanobiotechnology group in collaboration with CIBER-BBN and ICTS-Nanbiosis-PPP have developed a new technique for the fabrication of protein nanoparticles with unique and useful...
The Department of Chemistry of the UAB in collaboration with the ICN2 have developed a new class of smart windows of low cost and facile fabrication based on polymeric coatings loaded with organic wax nanoparticles. Thus, at low ambient temperatures or with little...
Diego Blas, distinguished researcher "Beatriz Galindo" from the UAB Department of Physics and IFAE proposes to use the small deviations of the orbits of binary systems, such as the Earth and the Moon, as a natural detector of gravitational waves. This would measure a...
Flip Klijn, researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC) and the Barcelona School of Economics (UAB-participated center), has studied the existence of fair mechanisms for assigning students to public schools, as an...
In 2014, a vaccination program for pregnant women against whooping cough began in Catalonia due to the increase in hospitalizations of young infants for...
