Category Archives: outreach

Heat and electronics

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Being energy one of the main problems we have to face as a society and considering the amount of computation we are demanding, this new research happens to be particularly important. A multinational effort that includes Spain, Italy and the USA is unvealing the mechanisms of heat transport at the nanoscale. And they’ve found a new process that involves an wavy nature. In particular they’ve reported the observation of phonon interference at room temperature in molecular-scale junctions [link].

Their results have been published in Nature Materials.

Taking a picture at 350.000km from home

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Recently I got obsessed with Sergei Korolev and his achievements during the short period of time he governed de Soviet Space Program. And in particular, I got really confused with the Lunik III story. The more I read, the more I didn’t understand. So in order to be able to comprehend how the USSR was able to take a picture of the dark side of the Moon in 1959, I dove deep in the issue and simulated the process. This is the result of this obsession.

[I’ll try to make an English version soon]

2024 Scixel Demoreel

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It’s been quite a while since our last reel, so here it is. I have to say that I’ve been busy (thanks to you all), so I guess these delays are good news after all. This summary of the last couple of years makes symbolizes 12 years of Scixel, which is also kind of special.

La saga de la Tercera Hija (Canto V)

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The Third Daughter saga is this project of ours in which we try to tell the story of the Earth as if it was a myth: with the poetry of myths and the beauty of science. This project was put on hold due to my commitments with my real job. But now I’m trying to find time to finish it. Hope you like it!

In this chapter we tell the story of the birth of Wâljei.

La Saga de la Tercera Hija

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What if we told the history of the Earth as a creation myth? This is La Saga de la Tercera Hija, which sadly does not have an English version yet. A very personal project that I’ve enjoyed making during the last couple of years. Hope you enjoy it too. Download it here!

 

A strange couple of years…

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It’s been a strange couple of years with worldwide issues that have affected us all. But here at Scixel, we can be nothing but grateful. First of all, the pandemic didn’t affect us in a serious way, neither us nor our families. Second, our clients continued with their usual hard work from home. And that deserves a huge ovation for the scientists all over the world. Their effort did not only kept us on business, but in better shape than ever. And finally, we kept working with Filmociencia and started working with Patricia Bondia, and that alone is something to be grateful for.

Here I leave you with a short summary of our work during the last two years. And as always, thank you all for making Scixel possible.

 

The Saga goes on!

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The Saga of the Third Daughter has reached its fourth chapter: The Battle of the Giants in which the origin of the oceans is told. In the following months, life will appear and it will establish the principles of a huge disaster. But that is yet to come.

The Third Daughter

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We’ve started a new project called The Saga of the Third Daughter, a series of videos telling the story of the Great Oxidation Event. Interestingly, or so we think, these videos are not designed to be part of an outreach project. We wanted to tell this story as if it was a classic creation myth.

Sadly, for the moment, the videos will be only in Spanish, although an English voice over would be an option in the future.

Here we present the first Book, hope you like it!

You can check the following releases here. Also, in the website we “translate” the poetry of the tale and explain the real story in which the saga is base.

Topographic reconstruction

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With today’s free tools and open information (satellite images, topography, etc) it is pretty straightforward to reconstruct real places and to present geographical information. Just an example:

Vision evolution

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This is an old side project we started three years ago and it is finally released… or recover… I’m not sure.

It is an explanation of how the eye evolved from very primitive and simple structures to the magnificent piece of machinery that it is today. And how it evolved independently in different species.

Finally, I have to thank Natalia Ruiz Zelmanovitch for the voice over, and Javier Trapiella and Montse Daura for their ideas and advices. Hope you like it!