Currently, plastic waste and its consequences are receiving a lot of media attention. Every day, vast ammounts of plastic debris are released into the oceans, having an impact on aquatic...
Nowadays, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become a key factor in our society. However, is it this way in every part of the world? Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria, more than 45% of the population has...
A new study published by ICTA-UAB states that the co-management model of small groups of fishermen together with the government contributes to a greater abundance and habitats of species. Moreover, it offers social and economic...
Matteo Rosati, from the Grup d'Informació Quàntica, has computed upper bounds on the maximum quantum information that can be transmitted through space. The research, recently published in Nature Communications, allows to evaluate the...
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...
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...
