Presentation of the 2019 IUNE Observatory report on university R+D+i

05.07.2019
The growth in research carried out within the framework of the Spanish University System (SUE in the Spanish acronym) has slowed since 2003, according to the conclusions of the latest annual report on university R + D + i drawn up by IUNE, an observatory of the 4U Alliance (the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra ).

Rebuilt a 129 million years old fern

05.07.2019
In a recent study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, paleobiologists at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), in collaboration with the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, describe for the first time the growth pattern of the Mesozoic fern Weichselia reticulata, a fossil plant from the exceptional site of Las Hoyas site, whose age is dated at 129 million years.