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Artist’s illustration of a quasar. Credits: Canva

Cosmological tension confirmed 05/12/2025

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It will be free of charge and suitable for all audiences, including families with children.

The Historic Building celebrates the UB’s 575<sup>th</sup> anniversary with an escape room 03/12/2025

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The seafloor serves as the ultimate dumping ground where the vast majority of marine litter ends up.

A roadmap for combating marine litter across the globe 28/11/2025

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Albert Lu (left) and Carles Enrich (right).

Researchers identify key molecular mechanism in cell communication 28/11/2025

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Professor Lluís Gibert, from the University of Barcelona, is the only expert from a European institution participating in an international study based on the analysis of the bones of a fossilized foot and teeth that has revealed how <i>Australopithecus deyiremeda</i>, a human ancestor that coexisted more than three million years ago with <i>Australopithecus afarensis</i> — the famous Lucy — on the plains of East Africa, moved and fed.

<i>Australopithecus deyiremeda</i>, an ancestor of the human species discovered in Ethiopia, was bipedal and climbed trees 27/11/2025

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The Statute has received great support.

An overwhelming majority approves the Statute that opens up a new way of understanding the university 26/11/2025

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A review article led by the University of Barcelona, the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and the UK National Oceanography Centre, with the participation of 20 institutions from various countries, including universities, research centres and NGOs, brings together for the first time all the available knowledge on the deep ocean. Credit: Jacob González-Solís, UB-IRBio

The seamounts of Cape Verde: a biodiversity hotspot and a priority for marine conservation in the central-eastern Atlantic 25/11/2025

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From left to right, Martí Orta, Fatima Eisam-Eldeen and Gorka Muñoa.

Cancel fossil fuel extraction contracts to combat climate change 20/11/2025

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