The growth of population, the loss of arable land, and climate change threaten global food security and economic stability. Crops are particularly affected by excessive soil salinity, and research has focused on improvements...
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Hospital Clínic, and the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) have published in Archives of Women’s Mental Health a systematic...
Fluids, such as water or air, are becoming increasingly relevant in the study of materials and in the physical and mathematical problems they present. The Department of Mathematics is studying the case of perfect fluids, whose evolution can...
Birth is one of the most decisive and fragile moments in human life, but identifying it is a challenge in the remains of very ancient individuals, especially when there are no teeth. Now, researchers from the UAB and the UAM have shown that the...
A research team from the UAB and the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona has evaluated for the first time the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing protocol (EMDR)...
Digitalisation has transformed education with changes that lead to mental health risks. The European project HealthyMindEd, with the participation of the Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology, analyses and disseminates...
Researchers from the UAB's Department of Geography have analysed whether the creation of superblocks has influenced the voting behaviour of residents living near them. The teams os experts has found that Barcelona en...
A research team led by the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the UAB is carrying out the TRANSFRONT project to analyze the communist response and subsequent counter-revolutionary...
Stable metallacarboranes can become an alternative to current cancer treatments and with fewer side effects, but for them to be effective, they need to accumulate in the nuclei of cancer cells. A team from the ICMAB has investigated how one of these...
Medical radiation from tests such as computed tomography (CT), even at low doses, can damage the DNA of cells. This study reveals that not all cells respond the same way to different doses of radiation: some are more radiosensitive and others more radioresistant. If the...
