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What is Chemistry, Mr. White?

Science and Society

Breaking Bad is all about the midlife crisis, and what better way to explore it than a burned-out high school teacher who was meant to be a multimillionaire business tycoon, but took a wrong turn along the way. This is the story of Walter White, the lead character of the series, but that’s not why he’s a bad teacher. The writers cleverly show him giving class in the first episode, setting us up for the sheer decrepitude of his current life. A teacher. Twenty listless students. The feeling that what you’re doing is useless… The scene only lasts a minute,...

Campus of Gandia and Columbia University Partner to Improve Treatment of Neurological Diseases

Technology

Improving the delivery of drugs to the brain to treat neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. This is the objective of the project that researchers from Campus Gandia and Columbia University are working on. According to the investigators, diseases such as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s are difficult to treat because of the blood-brain barrier, which protects the brain from infection, preventing drugs from reaching the affected areas of the organ. To overcome this, scientists are working on a system that can permeate the blood-brain barrier with ultrasound in order to deliver medications without damaging the wall. The first trials were...

Turing, Forgive Them Again

Science and Society

I hope you haven’t spent the six euros fifty it costs for a movie ticket, because nobody is ever going to give you back the money or the two hours of your life that you’ve wasted. The truth is that “The Imitation Game” is a bad movie anyway you look at it. From the cinematographic point of view it’s simplistic and cheesy, downright ridiculous at times. And from the historical point of view, it is fraught with inaccuracies, which could be overlooked if they actually contributed something to the story, but not even that. If I’m wasting my time writing...

Ivan Herrero Receives the 2014 Andres Lara Award for Young Researchers

Technology

The Spanish Society of Acoustics (SEA) has granted the eleventh Andrés Lara Award to the young acoustician Iván Herrero Durá for the thesis titled “Measurement of Sound Absorption of a Water Injection System ‘, the result of a research project for his Master’s thesis in Acoustical Engineering offered by the UPV in Gandia. The resulting scientific paper, presented to the Spanish Society of Acoustics, was been carried out with the collaboration and mentoring of Víctor Sánchez-Morcillo (IGIC), Javier Zaragozá, Rubén Picó (IGIC), and LL. Garcia-Raffi (IUMPA). According to Ivan Herrero, the objective of this research project is to reduce the impact of noise...

Demystifying Columbia

Science and Society

Francisco Camarena tells us about his personal experience as a researcher in a pioneering lab in his field in the U.S. Between September 2010 and August 2012 I did two research residencies lasting six and three months respectively in the Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging Laboratory (UEIL) at Columbia University in New York. During this period, my team at Campus Gandia and I worked on two projects related to the use of in the field of medicine.