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Vespres d'Estiu Poster.

Els Vespres d’Estiu: two decades promoting emerging musical talent 18/06/2025

News | Culture
From left to right, experts Albert Blasco Roset and Francesc Villarroya at the UB's Faculty of Biology.

Researchers identify a protein that may help improve the treatment of obesity and cardiovascular disease 16/06/2025

News | Research

Climate change impacts on biological production in the Mediterranean Sea 12/06/2025

News | Research
Verònica Noé and Carles J. Ciudad, professors at the UB’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences and the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB).

New therapeutic strategy designed to help lower cholesterol levels 11/06/2025

News | Research
A new study broadens the horizon of knowledge about how matter behaves under extreme conditions and helps to solve some great unknowns about the origin of the universe.

Deciphering the behaviour of heavy particles in the hottest matter in the universe 10/06/2025

News | Research
Photograph of the air sampling equipment with members of the Environmental Radiology Laboratory. From left to right, Anna Rigol, Alisson Coronel, Joana Tent and Vanessa Barjola.

The Faculty of Chemistry installs 900 m³/h high volume air sampler to detect radioactive contamination 05/06/2025

News | Research
Snowy owl .

Remains of birds that migrated 90,000 years ago from regions near the Arctic have been found in the Cova del Gegant in Sitges 05/06/2025

News | Research
The Faculty of Earth Sciences (University of Barcelona).

Geology in recession 05/06/2025

News | Institutional
From left to right, Montserrat Corominas, Palmira Llorens-Giralt and Florenci Serras.

UB researchers identify DNA regions and key genes that activate liver regeneration 03/06/2025

News | Research
The sessions will take place at the Aula Magna of the UB’s Faculty of Geography and History.

The University of Barcelona hosts an international conference on Palestine 02/06/2025

News | Academic

Rare earths: why are they so important? 02/06/2025

News | Research
The rector Joan Guàrdia and the Catalan minister Francesc Xavier Vila opened the meeting.

Researchers from several countries discuss language policies and their social and economic impact 29/05/2025

News | Research | Academic | Language
The journal <i> Nucleic Acids Research</i> dedicates its cover to the new study.

Findings on the protein that forms loops in the human genome 29/05/2025

News | Research
UB Health Clínic Health Campus takes off. Generalitat de Catalunya.

The consortium gets the green light to promote the future Clínic Health Campus - University of Barcelona 26/05/2025

News | Institutional
From left to right, Albert Giralt, Jordi Alberch, Esther Pérez-Navarro, Cristina Malagelada, Manuel J. Rodríguez-Allué, Almudena Chicote, Guadalupe Soria, Lydia Mora, Pol Garcia Segura and Lea Michalke.

New discovery on factors related to Alzheimer’s disease progression 26/05/2025

News | Research

University of Barcelona’s Science Festival 22/05/2025

News | Institutional | Divulgation

New factor linked to heart failure 22/05/2025

News | Research
The study analyses the function of bells or military communication between castles through sound.

A thesis on the use of sound in mediaeval Catalonia wins the Doctors’ Senate Award 20/05/2025

News | Research | Institutional
Experts Gustavo Egea, Victoria Campuzano and Isaac Rodríguez-Rovira at the UB’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Photo: Carlota Vallès/IDIBAPS

Allopurinol, designated as the first orphan drug for Marfan syndrome treatment 19/05/2025

News | Research

A study analyses the causes of university procrastination and proposes strategies to reduce its academic and emotional impact 15/05/2025

News | Research | Academic | Health
Alba López, Mercè Pallàs, Christian Griñán-Ferré and Carmen Escolano, all members of the UB’s Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Chemistry.

Researchers develop a potential new drug for Alzheimer’s and pain treatment 14/05/2025

News | Research

The peculiarity of mobility on foot in Barcelona does not allow for the application of global measures 13/05/2025

News | Research

«La ciència és una manera de pensar que transcendeix les diferències». Robert J. Zatorre, investit doctor honoris causa 12/05/2025

News | Institutional
A new wireless, battery-free photopharmacology protocol, based on the local and controlled release of light-activable drugs, proves its efficacy in pain treatment in animal models.

Design of the first remote photoactivation device 08/05/2025

News | Research

New study finds detention of undocumented migrants and forced return to country of origin ineffective and contrary to fundamental rights 07/05/2025

News | Research | Solidarity
Meritxell Aulinas Juncà is a professor at the UB’s Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Applied Geology.

Geologist Meritxell Aulinas receives the 12<sup>th</sup> Award for the best dissemination activity at the University of Barcelona 06/05/2025

News | Research | Institutional | Divulgation
Robert J. Zatorre, professor at McGill University in Montreal.

Robert J. Zatorre will receive an honorary doctorate for his pioneering research in the neuroscience of music 06/05/2025

News | Institutional
The UB's Scientific and Technological Centres' very high-field nuclear magnetic resonance device.

The University of Barcelona incorporates nine leading research infrastructures 05/05/2025

News | Research | Institutional | Technology

Deciphering the migratory behaviour and connectivity of Mediterranean and Atlantic Cory’s shearwaters 28/04/2025

News | Research
The combination of theoretical models and empirical data provides a new perspective for understanding the complex interactions between young stars and their environments. Credit: Paolo Padoan, Liubin Pan, Veli-Matti Pelkonen, Troels Haugbølle and Ake Nordlund

New discovery changes views on star and planet formation 24/04/2025

News | Research
Archaeological site.

The remains of the Iberian city of Kissa, an important site in the Punic Wars, have been found in Valls 24/04/2025

News | Research
The awarded work raises an urgent debate on the paradox of plastics, compounds with multiple applications that cause a high environmental impact across the planet.

Jordi Díaz receives the City of Benicarló Literary Award on scientific dissemination 22/04/2025

News | Divulgation
Susana Narotzky, professor of Social Anthropology at the UB.

Work beyond wage: UB takes part in a study that reveals the hidden side of contemporary capitalism 15/04/2025

News | Research
From left to right, UB researchers Carme Rovira and José Pablo Rivas-Fernández.

Key mechanism to obtain brown algae-derived compounds with biotech applications 10/04/2025

News | Research
From left to right, Jelani Cobb, Joan Guàrdia and Frederic Vincent.

The University of Barcelona commemorates the 25 years of the master’s degree in Journalism BCN-NY 09/04/2025

News | Institutional | Academic
From left to right, Fernando Martín and Joan Montero at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

New advances in the fight against the most common form of lung cancer 09/04/2025

News | Research
The University of Barcelona leads a European project to help improve the public management of plastic pollution in the north-western Mediterranean and citizens’ environmental awareness in preserving the marine environment

Citizen science to fight marine plastic pollution and improve environmental management 03/04/2025

News | Research

The University of Barcelona reaffirms its commitment to peace with an academic event on the situation in Palestine 01/04/2025

News | Institutional | Divulgation | Solidarity
From left to right, Mercè Pallàs and Santiago Vázquez.

UB researchers develop a new compound with therapeutic potential against Alzheimer’s disease 01/04/2025

News | Research | Health
In 1986, this specimen was the first Bonelli’s eagle chick in the world with a long-distance reading ring. Photo: Joan Real.

New methodologies reveal recovery of Bonelli’s eagle population, a threatened species 26/03/2025

News | Research