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Increases in aridity such as those expected from climate change could dramatically alter and even endanger ecosystems in arid areas of our planet. | Picture by Parsing Eye from Unsplash.
06.04.2020

A global map of the planet’s desertification

Metamorphosis is considered one of the most innovative processes in the evolution of insects. | Picture taken from the cover of the book "Insect Metamorphosis: From Natural History to Regulation of Development and Evolution".
27.03.2020

The new book of the insect metamorphosis expert, Xavier Bellés, is out

Picture of the debate that took place after the screening of the documentary "Scientifilia".
22.03.2020

A gender perspective on the scientific career

A new study explains the evolution of virus-plant interactions in Mediterranean ecosystems by considering environmental fluctuations in each case. | Picture by Dengrz from Unsplash.
16.03.2020

Researchers model the role of the environment on the spread of viral infections in plants

Wolbachia bacteria uses a number of strategies to manipulate cockroach reproduction to its own benefit.
03.03.2020

Studying the evolution of unisexuality in beetles

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, researcher at IBE, was the mission commander of the latest 'trip to Mars' in Astroland, where he collected environmental samples to analyse.
18.02.2020

A scientific field trip to Mars… on Earth

Picture of the last edition of the Open Day at the PRBB. | © Jordi Casañas.
05.02.2020

The reality of the gender gap in science: debates, activities and campaigns for February 11

Attendees of the event organized by the SciTech DiploHub during the guided tour of the PRBB facilities. | Picture by SciTech DiploHub.
22.01.2020

Catalan scientists living abroad meet in Barcelona

20.12.2019

ERC grants and genomics hints into bird extinctions

In this book, the researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox brings us the possibility of 'reviving' extinct species, such as mammoths. | Picture from Pixabay.
19.12.2019

“De-extinctions”, a book by Carles Lalueza-Fox

03.12.2019

The European Researcher’s Night

Jaw of a Gigantopithecus blacki (P1-M2=74mm). Credit image: Prof. Wei Wang; Edit: Theis Jensen.
20.11.2019

Paleoproteomics takes us back 2 million years and solves the mystery of a giant extinct ape

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