A sedentary lifestyle could be considered one of the great epidemics of the century. In the past 100 years, technological advances and socioeconomic development have shaped society, eliminating much of the...
The study of the microstructure of the eggshell of Cairanoolithus conducted by Albert G. Sellés and Angel Galobart, both researchers at the ICP, reveals that this egg type does not belong to sauropod dinosaurs but to ankylosaurs, and probably to...
In 1995, the General Spatial Planning of Catalonia (PGTC) was passed in order to obtain a more balanced distribution of the territory’s population. Two decades later, the evaluation of the territorial and socio-environmental consequences of PGTC shows...
When we talk about Chinese fascism we refer to the Blue Shirts or the Society of Rigorous Practice of the Three Principles of the People. But there was another, less known organization, the New Life Movement, a mass-fascist platform based on attracting, mentoring and controlling the...
Paul Robbins, director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is one of the world's leading experts in political ecology. He visited the UAB as a guest speaker at the ENTITLE programme...
Alejandro García Reidy was the one to discover a manuscript copy of Mujeres y criados (Women and Servants), a comedia by Lope de Vega. He is Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and researcher of the PROLOPE Group of the UAB, where he also is professor of the PhD programme in Spanish Studies.
Andrew Rowan is President of Humane Society International and Chief International Officer and Chief Scientific Officer of the Humane Society. With a PhD in Biochemistry from Oxford University, in 2002 he received the Henry Spira Award from the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing.
Kostas Kostarelos is Professor of Nanomedicine at the University of Manchester and Honorary Professor at the University College of London (UK) and is founding editor of the journal Nanomedicine. He recently advised the company PlayGen to develop a video game on nanomedicine in order to use this technology as a tool...
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, reseracher at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Cambridge -England-, was awarded with Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
Researchers from the Centre for Ambient Accessibility of Catalonia, the UAB Engineering School and the CIPO psychology team have created a video game to strengthen the cognitive and motor skills of people with intellectual disabilities and mental disorders.
