Not only politicians, but also citizens have double standards when judging the severity of corruption: an experiment shows that individuals are more tolerant when corruption affects politicians from the party they sympathise with. Data shows that this perceptual partisan bias...
A study analyzes the characteristics of environmental activism in historically marginalized urban neighborhoods of Casc Antic in Barcelona, the area of CayoHueso in Havana and Dudley in Boston. The place...
The thesis Sense passar-se de la ratlla (Without Crossing the Line) describes the process of normalisation of drug consumption occurring in recent years. It also discusses how most of consumers control the most adverse effects of drugs and how it continues to be...
The Aiguamolls de l’Empordà area is the second largest wetland in Catalonia, and was the first to be declared a protected area in the Costa Brava. A participatory study on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change reveals the...
Almost three decades ago,the discovery of proteins that could perform two different functions was a breaking point in the perception of classical molecular biology, changelling the concept of "one protein, one function". Recently, an international team lead by researchers from the UAB found a...
