Author Archives: Invited Researcher
Terminator: self-healing does no longer belongs to fiction only
About the author: Mikel Irigoyen is a PhD candidate at POLYMAT (UPV/EHU); his research is focused on the theoretical modelling of self-healing polymers.
As beautiful as it is, the natural world has always been a tough place to […]
Fully recyclable materials for food packaging
Author: Ainara Sangroniz is a researcher at POLYMAT, Department of Polymer Science and Technology, UPV/EHU
Packaging is essential to preserve the food quality and safety and to extend the shelf life of the stored product reducing the food waste. […]
Why is climate change denied?
Author: Martha Villabona works at Centro Nacional de Innovación e Investigación Educativa (CNIIE) of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, where she coordinates the area of multiple literacies.
Scientific disinformation about climate change is having a […]
Beyond an invisible horizon
Author: Marina Manganaro / The MAGIC Telescopes
The view of the horizon has always been of great inspiration for humans: that line, separating our Earth from the sky, appears so real. Looking at the Sea and its intersection with the […]
The effects of online outrage
Author: Martha Villabona works at Centro Nacional de Innovación e Investigación Educativa (CNIIE) of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, where she coordinates the area of multiple literacies.
Aristotle defined (fair) outrage as the pain that […]
Electron-phonon coupling enhancement in Sn nanowires
Author: Daniel Pérez is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, Sweden.
Last February I published my first scientific article as principal author in Physical Review B . This article summarizes a big part of my work […]
A universal theory for heteropolymer design
Author: Ivan Coluzza is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at CICbiomaGUNE
On our unique planet, life evolved under the pressure of natural selection. The evolution theory of Darwin demonstrates the incredible plasticity of the living organism. For millions of years, living […]
Use of social networks by scientists
Author: Martha Villabona works at Centro Nacional de Innovación e Investigación Educativa (CNIIE) of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, where she coordinates the area of multiple literacies.
Technology by itself is not good or bad […]
Singin’ in the Brain: why brain tumour patients are singing on the operating table
Authors:
Zoë Firth & Priscila Borba Borges, students, European Master’s in Clinical Linguistics (EMCL+) and Adrià Rofes (advisor)
‘I can’t control my brain’. So sang Weezer in their 2001 hit ‘Island in the Sun’; how fitting, then, […]
The spreading of science news, from Arthur Eddington (1919) to black holes (2019).
Author: Jaume Navarro is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country
On April 10th 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first image ever of a black hole. Five simultaneous press conferences, […]