The forests of southern Europe and the Mediterranean basin are losing moisture. As a result, they are absorbing less atmospheric CO2 and losing their cooling effects during droughts, a phenomenon which augments heat waves and reduces food supplies for their communities of fungi and insects

STAFF | JANUARY 26th, 2011

Researchers at Barcelona’s Evolutionary Biology Institute have sequenced the DNA of fossils from the archaeological site of El Sidrón in northern Spain to study the family relationships of Neanderthals. Researchers have discovered that Neanderthal females abandoned the group when they were old enough to reproduce and that there were exchanges of partners to avoid inbreeding

STAFF | DECEMBER 21ST, 2010

A study by Spain’s National Research Council has developed a new model for explaining the creation of continental shelves. The study’s findings, published in Nature, may help predict the presence of resources such as oil on a large scale

STAFF | NOVEMBER 5TH, 2010

A team led by Carles Lalueza-Fox, a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, studied a dried blood sample stored in a gourd that supposedly was kept as a souvenir from the execution of the French King Louis XVI by guillotine in 1793.

STAFF | OCTOBER 25TH, 2010