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1. BTEK — Experience Technology!
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We live in the technology age: Computers, Internet and mobile phones are part of our everyday lives; we hear words like biotechnology and nanotechnology all the time. But what are these techn

2. The Ogino-Knaus method
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Hi Agurtzane, I've had a question on my mind for some time now. I've talked to friends and my boyfriend about it. My boyfriend and I have always used a condom, but we've got fed up with it and we wa

3. Rewarded for studying Pasaia’s Pollution!
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...t a prize for it too! The sisters Leire and Olatz Iparragirre-Gil have won 5th prize in the “1st Biotechnology Competition: Biotecnológate”. The competition has been organised a...

4. CityCar, the right car for you
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...fypaida, Denokin and the Mercedes plant in Gasteiz-Vitoria), together with the MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As the CityCar’s promoters say, one of its most outstanding features ...

5. Chic? Who, me? And healthy, too
(Aldizkaria/Ezkutuko zientzia - English)

When Cleopatra used eye makeup, she not only highlighted her gaze, she protected her eyes against infection. That is the conclusion reached by chemists at the CNRS centre for research

6. With bikes like that, no problem!
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We are in no doubt that the pushbike is the best way of getting around. But sometimes it’s difficult to resist the bus, train or car, when it’s raining, for example, or if we have a long

7. Reading through touch
(Aldizkaria/Ezkutuko zientzia - English)

... they would like. At a university in South Korea they’ve come up with a practical solution using haptic technology –the technology of touch–. Haptic Reader is an interface that trans...

8. Human antenna
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Tread there, shift your left foot a bit to the left, bend your body... That’s it, you can hear the radio ok thanks to the human antenna. Your body works like a human antenna on a rug made of con

9. The sounds of silence
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Some headphones, like the ones used on building sites, limit incoming noise; they try to isolate the noise just as ear plugs do. Others are more complex and silence the noise by creating “anti-n

10. Surfing with a heater
(Aldizkaria/Ezkutuko zientzia - English)

The Quicksilver company has marketed a heated vest for surfers to be worn under a neoprene suit. We’ve seen this vest on Aritz Aranburu and from the photo he seems happy with it. The polypropyle

11. Researchers also like Xbox
(Aldizkaria/Albisteak - English)

...consoles crossing with real life: the Roadrunner computer, the fastest in the world, uses the same processing technology as PlayStation 3. ...

12. Identity Card: identity in the flesh
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Zornotza, the year 2020. The person they’ve been trying to find for so long is now standing right before their eyes at last. But how can they be abs

The Elhuyar Foundation and Innobasque are running the Teknoskopioa ideas competition for young people. The deadline for the first round of the 2009-2010 competition was 31 January, and the winning blo

14. Gorrondatxe, the beach of history
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... has wonderful scenery. The Research Team of the Stratigraphy and Palaeontology Department of the Science and Technology Faculty of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country presented the cluster o...

15. GOOGLE WAVE. The wave set to swallow up e-mail
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E-mail has had its 40th birthday. And Google, instead of organising a birthday party, has decided to get rid of it. To do this, it has come up with a giant wave to swallow it up: Google Wave

The Elhuyar Foundation, Innobasque and the Basque Autonomous Community’s Department for Education, Universities and Research have launched the Teknoskopioa 2009-2010 ideas competition for y

17. In search of muons passing through us
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They are all around us and pass through our bodies. They are not from here, but from the cosmos, where they originate; but they reach us. Not just our bodies, either, because they can get right thro

18. Tiles that breathe in and out
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New York has its Central Park, and Sestao its tiles. Although one is undoubtedly more attractive than the other, they both aim to do the work of the city's lungs. The tiles in Amezaga street in Sestao

19. Chatting to the stars
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Many of the students who were at the Zientziaren Kutxagunea-Science Museum yesterday must have been there before to visit the museum and the planetarium. But yesterday the students didn't go

20. From the Film Festival to the Science Festival
(Aldizkaria/Erreportajeak - English)

The nanotechnology congress has begun. Where? At the Kursaal conference centre in Donostia-San Sebastian. What is more, it has a great title: Atom by Atom . So as it is being held right here, and as

21. Dissonances
(Aldizkaria/Erreportajeak - English)

Many people like distortion in music and I, at least, am one of them. But dissonance is another matter. Dissonance is the absence of harmony or affinity among simultaneous sounds; for example a

22. No Excuse for Getting Lost
(Aldizkaria/Ezkutuko zientzia - English)

If you are one of those who like to lose your way, it's no use. But if you always want to know exactly where you are, or if you love Global Positioning Systems (GPS), you will adore SatNav Shoes, whic

23. The QR-Code and gift from the Gose band
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After you have read the interview given by Ines Osinaga , Irrika would like to give you something else: a gift prepared specially for you by the Gose band. An exclusive one... you won't be able to w

24. Don’t eat it! The popcorn is packing material.
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A group of sixth form students at the Jesus Obrero school in Gasteiz-Vitoria have proposed a way of wrapping a breakable present that you want to send to a friend; the idea makes use of popcorn, or e

25. Laurita Siles
(Aldizkaria/Irrikatzaileak - English)

Part of the Andalusian folklore was stereotyped by the Franco dictatorship as an image of Spanishness, while ‘Basqueness’ was censored and used in the regime’s favour.

26. Genetically Modified products are always in fashion
(Aldizkaria/Erreportajeak - English)

Genetically Modified or GM products are always in fashion. How often they appear in the media varies, but they never disappear altogether. In actual fact, there are some things a

27. Unlimited Formula 1
(Aldizkaria/Ezkutuko zientzia - English)

...e rules were imposed. The Williams engineer says that without these restrictions and with today’s technology Formula 1 cars could achieve a force of G7; in other words, like that of a figh...

28. A robot capable of recognising jokes
(Aldizkaria/Albisteak - English)

A robot that will be able to recognise jokes has been built at the University of Cincinnati. With software designed to recognise leg pulling, an important step is going to be taken in the attempt to m

29. Beer, but without alcohol
(Aldizkaria/Ezkutuko zientzia - English)

Alcohol-free beer has all the advantages of ordinary beer; in other words, it quenches your thirst and tastes great, but it doesn’t go to your head or give you a hangover! And what is more, it

30. Warm or cold?
(Aldizkaria/Ezkutuko zientzia - English)

Don’t serve me a warm Coca-Cola. I don’t want a cold infusion, please. Now, impressing visitors couldn’t be easier, because you can make a drinks mat that tells whether a drink is ho

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