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To build the longest world bridge, China turned to a peculiar material: bamboo

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Although Saudi Arabia and Arab Emirates are immersed in a particular war for have the most beast buildingstalking about megaconstructions is to automatically look at China. The Asian giant has some of the works more tremendous, impossible bridges and even Higher abandoned skyscraper in the world. And one of those pharaonic constructions is the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge. With a length of 55 kilometers, it turns out that it is not only formed by steel and concrete: the secret ingredient is bamboo. And according to those responsible, continue like the first day. The bridge. After six years of planning and another eight of construction, in 2018 China opened the imposing bridge that connects Macao and Zhuhai. Its 55 kilometers, 6.2 of them underground, allow to convert a trip that previously lasted three hours into a ‘walk’ of just 30 minutes. And something that resonated in its day was the 420,000 tons of steel (which would be equivalent to 60 Eiffel towers), its more than one million cubic meters of concrete and the flexibility necessary to support typhoons and earthquakes. It is a barbarity, with an underground stretch that disappears and emerges from the sea It looks like a ship, but it is one of the two inputs/exits of the sea Bamboo. It turns out that the mixture added a plant: bamboo. And it is something that is not so weird, since, as we can read In South China Morning Post, China is the largest bamboo producer in the world and is something to give way. In the aforementioned bridge, this element was used on the panoramic platforms that are found throughout the same and the official newspaper Science and Technology commented a few days ago that, after six years installed, these panels have resisted sunlight, typhons and The corrosion of seawater, keeping “as solid as ever.” One more element. Lou Zhichao is a member of the Bamboo Research Institute of the Forestry University of Bamboo and pointed out that, apart from in China, bamboo occurs mainly in developing countries, which gives China a unique advantage and position to the time to process this bamboo. His team, in fact, has been developing more advanced technologies to process bamboo a decade, causing the process to emit less co₂ while encouraging the use of bamboo under constructions due to a relationship between resistance and weight higher than some alloys of some alloys of some alloys of steel. In addition, it can replace wood, plastic and steel itself in some constructions. Bamboo II. Now, although it has interesting properties, it also has a problem: it is prone to decomposition. This means that when bamboo facilities are done, toxic preservatives must be used that make the material much less ecological. The chickens that come through those that come out in environmental matters, basically. And, precisely, the Zhichao team has been working in recent years. One of its latest advances in research is a heat treatment that eliminates nutrients that cause the accelerated decomposition of the material. This allows to reduce its processing time by 50% while increasing durability outdoors without antimoho treatments. Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport. You don’t have to go to China to see great structures in which bamboo is clear protagonist. In Spain we have examples such as Madrid airport Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, in which the roof of terminal 4 is formed by lames 100 mm wide of bamboo sheet. In total, there are 200,000 m² of bamboo with fire resistance and was the ideal material due to the peculiar curved forms of the terminal roof design. It is also a material that was raised for the Futurist Ciudad Oceanix City And the protagonist of the bamboo towers that Paris wants to build for 2050. And scaffolding. Beyond in places as punished as a bridge in such a complicated area and applications in other buildings, bamboo is absolute protagonist in Hong Kong. Specifically, in its skyscrapers, like an exoskeleton that really is a system of Scaffolding During the construction of buildings. For the rest, Zhichao continues to work to expand the use of bamboo as high quality material for several reasons. One because it absorbs 50% more co₂ than common trees. Another because it is estimated that its crop and market benefits some 50 million people throughout the country. And, therefore, he hopes that the government “finance the development of key technologies and reinforce regulation by national and local standards to boost the industry.” Industry tech. Apart from in structures, bamboo is positioning as a material that can be very useful in other sectors. An example is that of consumer technology not as an element that goes within the devices, but as part of the packaging. A few years ago, on a visit to the Innovation Center of Lenovo, They told ushow they were starting to use bamboo in the boxes of their laptops. Bamboo box to the right. On the left too, but after a year underground. The reasons were environmental due to the degradation of their fibers in normal conditions in nature. In fact, it can be buried directly in the garden to use it as fertilizer. In the photo that we leave just on these lines you can see two boxes, one new and one after a year underground, to appreciate its degree of decomposition. And, that sustainability is one of the keys (along with many others, of course) of decarbonization. Images | Xataka, Moso, NRG800, Chronus, HMZB, Chris 73, Kamakura In Xataka | After 120 years of growth, a Japanese bamboo has just flourished. And that is a problem

The Coffee World Cup exists and Spain has put their hopes in a barista in Vigo: Marcos González

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Making coffee is simple, but prepare a good coffee It is something that has crumb. When you start investigating the peculiarities of each preparation, coffee varieties and instruments for get all the juice to the grainsyou discover that it is an art. There are those who take this to the highest level, so much that there is even a coffee World Cup. Or Baristas, rather. This is the World Coffee Challenge, and this year the Vigo Marcos González will represent Spain in this curious competition. The Coffee World Cup. If there is an Excel World Cupit is logical that there is such a competition around One of the most consumed drink on the planetafter the water, of course. In fact, there is not only a competition, since the World Coffee Challenge is an umbrella that embraces various disciplines. One of them is the World Barista Championship in which, obviously, the best baristas in the world break up to see who prepares the best experience. Because here not only does the technique matter, but to tell a story to the jury. It seems boring from the outside, but it is quite interesting to see the skills of the competitors. One of them is someone who has worked a career as a coffee disseminator, James Hoffmanwho rose with the trophy in 2007 and what he has done follies how to prepare a Donut coffee. Coffee fest. As in all competitions, there are a series of previous rounds, and to find the Spanish representative, a few days ago the Coffee fest. More than a simple competition, it is a coffee celebration with the best coffee with milk preparation or the best filtered coffee, others that test their skills with the Latte arttasting tournaments and other activities. James Hoffman was in this year’s edition, as well as other disseminators and youtubers such as Hedrick Lance. And, regardless of being a meeting point in which coffee lovers share knowledge and experiences, it was the framework of the national competition of Baristas. Vigo quality. 18 professionals from all over the country gathered to prove their skills, and the best was the Vigo Marcos González. It was not the first time that he raised with victory, since in 2018 and 2019 he was also considered the best barista in Spain. His proposal this year was an experience that ‘told’ crucial moments of his career, as they detail Our companions from direct to the palate: Origin: Inspired by its connection with the Esmeralda farm in Panama, this concoction reflects its first experiences with Coffee Geisha, a variety appreciated for its unique flavor profile. Freedom: This drink embodies Marcos’s relationship with his team and innovative spirit, highlighting the importance of collaboration and creativity in the world of coffee. Happiness: A fusion that joins flavors and techniques of Colombia, Panama and Asturias, regions that have significantly marked the personal and professional life of the barista. His three elaborations, in order, were an express with The exclusive Geisha Caféa coffee with milk and a cocktail. In Faro de Vigo, the barista confessed That such a championship requires many hours of training. Also imagination to link coffee with the narrative and conquer the jury. And that your pulse does not shake because we all know that any calculation error can be a disaster when it comes to Prepare the perfect coffee. Objective: Milan. It will be from October 17 to 21 when Milan will host the World Coffee Championship of this 2025 and the opportunity that Marcos will have to be duel against another 69 of the best baristas in the world. In FDV, he said that some of them are their idols, so it will not be easy, but he hopes that this time the defeated after staying in 2019 one step away from the semis. The judges will evaluate factors such as the taste, presentation, balance and technique of the barista, as well as that narrative that we comment that links the elaborations. We will have to be attentive. Images | WCC In Xataka | Toast coffee at home with the air fryer: the perfect example that experiments are done with soda

After a delay of seven years, Saudi Arabia takes up the works of the highest skyscraper in the world. Let’s see what lasts

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Saudi Arabia has become the Madrid of the ‘galacticos’, the Barcelona of the ‘Tiki-Taka’. When we talk about megaconstructions, the country plays in another league, a capable of shadowing the Almighty Manhattan. And it is evident when we see all those projects that have as hands like the imposing MUKAABthe huge Abraj al Bait tower watch or the ‘Boss’ end of urbanism: The Line. Another project is Jeddah Tower that, like The Line, It has been choking More than once to builders. But, after two threats to return to the work, now the final one has arrived: they have restarted the works of what will be the highest building in the world. Kingdom Tower. The Jeddah Tower, or Kingdom Tower, has an objective between eyebrow and eyebrow: make the Burj Khalifa 828 meters high. To do this, the same team of architects that built the Dubai skyscrapers is being in charge of this tower, which will be the jewel of the crown of the crown of the Vision 2030 Project and the heart of a new city that will rise around it. The construction began more than a decade ago, but although they advanced at a good pace, the planning was too optimistic. It was said that it would have been completed in 2018, but by then, the tower was not even close to completing. The reason? Delays due to labor problems and COVID-19 Pandemiabut above all to the purge of corruption of 2017. The purge. In 2018, the heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman created an anti -corruption committee with an objective: centralize political power. He had tired that different elites of the country handled the threads, so he created a system that ended with more than 380 arrests of entrepreneurs, ministers, princes and even members of his family, as his own mother. HE speak of death groups to murder dissidents and, in this purge to stop political corruption, extortion to officials and money laundering, foundations and first floors of the Jeddah Tower suffered the consequences, being frozen. Initial plans with the intention of release the tower in 2018 and a height comparison To the third is the defeated. At the end of 2023, the promoter invited local contractors to see which candidacy conquered him for the end of the work and, in October last year, a video made it clear that They moved on. The problem is that everything was very in the air … until now, when the company Kingdom Holding Companythe one behind the project has announced that construction has restarted. In it release before the press, They affirmed that they had already poured cement on the 64th floor and that they are using a cement application technique with which they can complete a floor every four days. 1,000 meters, more or less. It will have about 160 floors and we cannot speak with ownership of the matter because, really, it is not clear. It is curious that it is not known from the beginning how many floors the tower will have or how much it will measure, and in the last releaseThey explain that it will measure more than 1,000 meters high, but that it is something that will take place in the future. To every train. What seems invariable is that it will be a luxurious tower that will act as an epicenter of a new city. The skyscraper will house shops, offices, recreational spaces and hotels, such as Four Seasons. He also aspires to have the highest viewpoint in the world and is expected to be a structure covered with glass, such as an extremely elongated pyramid and with a base of three edges. It will be in an area of ​​5.3 million m² in which there will be hospitals, schools, universities, shopping centers and housing, as well as other high towers and, from the government, it has been confessed that they are open to any type of investment to develop The ambitious project. Investment? Welcome. They affirm that the financing has almost been completed, with the builders -binladin Group- financing the first part, the banks putting their grain of sand and other sources of capital that has preferred not to reveal (stating that it is something that they will do step by step). What has made it clear is that Binladin Group is “strongly supported by the government” and that they are open to any type of investment because it is a tower that will make the land around you increase their value. And not only the immediate, like that land of 5.3 million m², but the entire region. This is what they want to ride around them They have work ahead It is estimated that the Jeddah tower is completed by 2028 as part of Vision 2030 to diversify the economy of the country, but as this does not stop, they are already thinking about its following tower: one that will humiliate Jeddah with a height of two kilometers in Riadnear the imposing Rey Khalid International Airport. Images | Omarnizar05, Google Earth, Jeddah Tower In Xataka | Saudi Arabia is waste so much money in The Line that has entered deficit

We have discovered the largest underground thermal lake in the world. It is at the bottom of a more than 100 meters aser in Albania

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Albania has just been crowned on the world geological map. And big. There, on the border with Greece, a tens of meters deep, an expedition has identified the largest underground thermal lake on the planet. His name, Neuron. Its figures: more than 183 m long, 42 wide and sufficient water to fill A few Olympic pools. The finding confirms the scope of a discovery that dates back several years ago but whose relevance has only been confirmed now, with the help of a Lidar scanner. Its history is as curious as its size. “A steam column”. To understand the scope of the discovery you have to go back a few years ago, at 2021 and 2002, when a team of Czech scientists launched Vromoner, in southern Albania, near the border with Greece. The area resulted especially interesting For geologists because for years the convulsive political context of Balkans had hindered that scientists could thoroughly examine it. There the experts found a vast underground system of thermal sources thanks to a curious track: a steam stream. “From the high vapor column that rose from the limestone massif we managed to locate a chasm of more than one hundred meters deep,” Marek Audy tellsHead of the expedition. They called her atmos. When exploring it, they took an even greater surprise (literally): they found an intense thermal activity and a “great lake.” How large and broad it was, however, it became an unknown that then, for technical issues, they could not clarify. A (huge) suspicion. Which I was clear Audy team was that it had found something big, huge. And again both words can be understood in their most literal sense. The team suspected that the water extension that had been located in Albania was the largest underground thermal lake in the world, at least among those known today. Hence, later the researchers returned to the Sima in a new expedition provided with a reinforced technical arsenal. Thanks to the support of the Neuron Foundation, which contributed funds, the geologists achieved a special lidar scanner and the software necessary to measure the area. The objective of the researchers –The Neuron Foundation reported Before the expedition left – it was to make a map, a 3D model of the underground cave and the lake and even collect samples of animals from the banks. The result of that incursion has been waiting, but it was worth it: today those responsible presume having identified the largest underground thermal lake in the world. A “unique” lake. In a wink to the foundation that supported the project to the lake, Neuron has been baptized. What surprises however is not its name, but its size: 138.3 meters in length by 42 wide with a circle of 345 m. Inside it hosts around 8,335 m3 of thermal mineral water and those who have had the opportunity to visit it highlight the show of its dome, three times greater than that of the main room of the Prague National Theater. “The phenomenon has been subject to a thorough hydrogeological study to confirm its singularity,” The Foundation stands outwhich emphasizes that it is a “unique” lake. And how did they measure it? The team did not start from scratch. Richard Bouda, photographer and member of the expedition, Explain to Euronews that during the first visit they had already prepared a “basic map” with the resources they had. When they returned they did it, however, with a mobile lidar scanner and the system Geoslam which allowed them to precisely probe the cave and the lake. Not just that. They also traced a detailed map of Atmos, including other caves, such as sulfur. “We believe that this discovery will help protect the area and to better understand hydrological flows. Until now, nobody knew precisely how these groundwater connect to the surface,” Bouda comments. The team also trusts that the finding has an impact on the hydrological and geological studies of the region. Images | Neuron 1 and 2 In Xataka | A cave in France hid a strange rock formation. Some researchers believe that it could be a 3D map

Tired of people talking about the end of the world without knowing, Newton decided to calculate it. And he explained it in a letter of 1704

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By 1665 the bubonic plague arrived in London in a cotton ship from Amsterdam. In the following years, between overcrowding, dirt, hunger and rats, they would die More than one hundred thousand people In the country. In August, the great plague arrived in Cambridge and forced the university to close. It was then that a very young Isaac Newton had to return to Woolshorpe Manor, the family home. Over there, According to a probably fraudulent traditionsat down one of the three apple trees of the farm and the blow of one of the fruits brought to mind the theory of gravity. We do not know if the craniocerebral trauma produced by the happy apple was also responsible for everything that came in the last part of his life. Sir Isaac Newton was not any. On the one hand, Newton was, in fact, an intellectual giant. “The greatest scientific brain that the world has known,” According to Asimov; the person responsible for that “perhaps the greatest advance of thought that a single individual has ever done”, According to Albert Einstein. “Nature and its laws were hidden at night; God said ‘that Newton’ becomes and made the light,” he says Alexander Pope’s famous epitaph. On the other, it was someone complicated – especially after The nervous breakdown he suffered in 1693. The most controversial example is its passage through the house of La Moneda de England (a stage of your life Full of torture, hanging and dismembered falsifiers); However, a brief review of his personal life and friendship gives good account of it. But what interests us today is that he was passionate about the Bible. It is estimated that more than half of what Newton wrote It had to do with theology and alchemy; And, as a good mathematician, one of the themes that worried him most was the end of the world. The end of the world? Yes, at that time (remember that The English revolution had just “finished”) Religious debates were in the flower. And the end of the world was a usual issue in public conversation. But Newton was convinced that people did it wrong. Lincolnshire’s genius analyzed the biblical text (And, specifically, Daniel’s book and the Apocalypse) and concluded that people were exaggerating the closeness of the end of the world. And gave a date? Yes and no. As Newton seems to identify the year 800 d. C. as the moment when the Church entered the “great apostasy.” This is a key date in the texts and, from there, he deduced that there was no reason to think that before 1260 years the apocalypse arrived. That means that We are relatively safe until 2060. Because, as he said “he may end later, but I don’t see any reason for him to end before.” But did he really think he was going to end the world? According to Stephen Snobelen, professor at the King’s College University of Halifax (Nueva Scotia) that has studied the matterNewton did not believe that the world would end in a literal sense. “For Newton, 2060 AD would be rather a new beginning. It would be the end of an ancient era, and the beginning of a new era: the era to which the Jews refer as the messianic era and the era to which Christians premillennials call the millennium or kingdom of God “, Snobelen defended. Obviously, we are not faced with weight to think that the apocalypse is just around the corner. But knowing The close we are from the end of the worldwe can take all this as an invitation to take advantage of the moment. Image | Godfrey Kneller In Xataka | When Newton reached the fundamental laws of physics there was already a sign that said “Leonardo was here”

Nikola had everything to revolutionize the world of hydrogen trucks. Now is on the verge of bankruptcy

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In 2014, and just over a decade after the appearance of Tesla, Nikola arrived. It was another automotive company, another that honored the electrical engineer and inventor And that he also wanted to mark the way in the world of electric vehicles. However, his incursion was not in the cars segment, but of trucks, which earned him the nickname ‘THE TESLA OF TRUCKS‘. He immediately caught attention, with promises such as electric and hydrogen trucks with autonomies of 2,000 kilometers. Today, its trucks are a mere memory and the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. On the edge of the abyss. That is what sources point in both Bloomberg as of The Washington Postwho claim that anonymous representatives of the company have told them that the company is evaluating their financial and liquidity needs to carry out a financial restructuring. And within the options, the sale of the company, the aforementioned restructuring and bankruptcy are included. The question is how a company that became valued -during a very brief period of time, yes- above a giant like Fordit has ended in this situation. And the full photo is quite eloquent. Chulo was, really, but it was just an idea Nikola Tesla. It was in 2016 when we met the company’s first truck, a six -wheeled beast, a power of 2,000 hp and the ability to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 30 seconds to maximum load. It could also maintain a speed of 100 km/h rising a 6% slope and, thanks to a pile of hydrogen, it had an autonomy of almost 2,000 kilometers. Your name? Nikola One. 375,000 dollars was what they were going to ask once to production, something that would begin in 2020. However, that 2020 and without having sold a single truck, Nikola became a public company. It was a strange movement because the only thing that existed were promises. Already We said In its presentation: very nice on paper, but although the truck could be reserved paying a tank of $ 1,500, there was no product. Two. Tre. Even so, Nikola continued to present trucks. The TWO was the following in 2017, a truck of which they did show a prototype that moved with electric motors and autonomies more restrained than those of the first: between 800 and 1,200 kilometers. It also has hydrogen battery, cameras instead of mirrors. And then the Tre In 2018, repeating hydrogen formula, up to 1,200 kilometers and a design more adapted to European roadswhere long morro trucks do not have so much place due to their maneuverability. They had three trucks on their way, but none produced and the promise was still to start deliver LO TESLA AND THE COMPANY affirmed that I already had customers with reservations of even 800 trucks in the US. Controversial. They did not wait and, in 2018, Nikola sued Tesla. It’s funny, really, but beyond the word game, it is because Nikola asked the Musk company due to alleged patent infractions for the Tesla Semithe proposal of electric truck of Tesla. According to them, Tesla had copied three key points of the Nikola One, such as the fiselogue design, the enveloping windshield and the entrance door. They looked, yes (and, for tastes, colors, but the semi looks like a van split in half and the One a more futuristic vehicle). But the main course arrived in 2020: due to accusations of fraud, The CEO and founder of Nikola, Trevor Milton, resigned. It was after a devastating report that Nikola described as a “ocean of lies” and pointed to Milton as responsible for mulminating shareholders to bet on the company. “There was no stack of fuel in the truck. We never affirmed that it existed,” Milton defended himself, who also boasted of having a lot of development technologies that turned out to be from third parties. Cancellations. Since 2020, the waters have been calmer, but that there would be no controversy does not mean that things were good for doors inside. The Badger, His rival against the Cybertruck de Teslait was canceled along with other prototypes and the number of hydrogen trucks does not give to sustain the company. In Bloomberg they point out that, during the first nine months of 2024, only 200 were sold and in October the company said they had effective to finance their operations until the first quarter of 2025, But not beyond. In December They offered Up to 100 million dollars in shares, but it seems that things have failed to take off. We will see what happens with ‘The Tesla of the trucks’, but its situation does not look good. In Xataka | Toyota wanted to make the star technology and the alternative to the electric car. They already doubt that it is possible

It was inaugurated in 2014 as the largest solar thermal energy plant in the world. Will close after setting fire to birds

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The huge Ivanpah thermosolar energy plant, opened in 2014 in the Mojave desert, will close after just 11 years of operation. An accelerated end for its history of technical, economic and environmental problems. Context. The thermal concentration energy, once considered one of the most avant -garde technologies for clean electricity generation, is not going through its best moment. Especially in Nevada, where Crescent Dunes fiasco was already very popular. The concentration thermoso use thousands of mirrors, or “heliosteats”, which follow the trajectory of the sun to concentrate its light on central towers. In these towers, extreme heat is used to heat water and produce steam, which drives turbines connected to electric generators. The Ivanpah case. The Ivanpah plant was built with an investment of 1.6 billion dollars in loans from the United States Department of Energy and long -term contracts for important electrical companies. It was the world’s largest solar thermal energy Until the inauguration of Port Augusta In Australia. 11 years after its inauguration, the huge thermosolar has begun to close by not fulfilling its initial expectations. The lack of profitability condemned her. A succession of failures and complaints from environmental groups for their impact on wildlife accelerated their end. A complex technology. One of the main problems has been the difficulty of maintaining mirrors aligned precisely. Technology, which requires an exact monitoring of the sun, has proven unstable and unreliable in practice, says a CNN report. The maintenance of the complex mechanisms and the management of the turbines in turn generate high operating costs, which has made concentration thermosar loses competitiveness compared to other renewable technologies, especially photovoltaic solar, whose prices have collapsed. A Bird Incinerate Machine. Criticisms are not limited to technical aspects. The Ivanpah plant has been questioned for years for its environmental impact, especially in the wildlife of the desert. Environmental groups denounce the irreparable damage in the habitat of species such as desert turtle. But also The death of birds that are incinerated by intense rays concentrated by mirrors. A second Crescent dunes. The case of Crescent Dunes, also occurred in Nevada, reinforces this image of failure of the thermosolar energy. This project, which was intended to be one of the milestones in energy innovation and storage through molten salts, ended up becoming a multimillionaire waste. Developed By the Spanish group ACSpromised continuous production of electricity, even during the hours without light, thanks to the thermal storage in salts. In practice, Crescent Dunes never managed to deliver the amount of promised energy and ended up breaking due to engineering and management problems. In the shadow of the photovoltaic. In short, the rapid drop in photovoltaic technology and its lower impact on wildlife have obsolete concentration thermos. While solar panels have gained efficiency and reducing their installation and maintenance costs, thermosolar plants have lagged behind in terms of competitiveness, which has led to investors and electrical companies reconsidering their bets in this type of projects. In Xataka | The first solar plant of Central Torre to explode commercially is in Seville: a pioneer that has survived more ambitious

This is how bracelets with stickers came to cheat half the world

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We are in 2009. Slovakia joins the euro zone, The name of Satoshi Nakamoto It begins to resonate in certain forums, the first Metro line from Andalusia is inaugurated in Seville, Spain gets gold in the Eurobasket and half -world dolls dress with miraculous bracelets called Power Balance. These bracelets, whose price was just 30 euros, promised to improve strength, balance and flexibility thanks to holograms that fixed our biocampus. They also turned out to be a millionaire scam. Power Balance’s story goes back to 2007, when the Josh and Troy Rodarmel brothers founded the company in California. Although the concept was not new, the two brothers developed a marketing campaign that worked perfectly, starting with Give your first 50,000 bracelets in the US Open of Surfing of 2007. Power Balance bracelet | Image: Wagner Bonifacio Leite In just a few months, these bracelets began arriving at personalities dolls such as Michael Jordan, Cristiano Ronaldo, Leonardo DiCaprio and even Shaquille O’Neal, which It appeared on video saying “I don’t give many testimonies, but this does work.” The Power Balance arrived throughout the world, Spain included. Until Infanta Elena had one. In 2010, the company reported some Sales worth $ 35 millionnothing wrong for a product without any scientific basis. Various studies They began to demonstrate that these products were useless, thus arriving the beginning of the end of the company. The key was, undoubtedly, the placebo effect, but that there was a hologram that balanced and isolated frequencies to improve our body was simply false. At the end of 2010The company had to admit that its products were not based on scientific evidence. In 2011, she was sentenced for fraud and forced to pay 57 million dollars. That led Power Balance to bankruptcy. Finally, the company was sold in 2012 to a Chinese company for eight million dollars. The original founders disregard them completely, but the product is still sold today (only without announcing effects of any kind). Cover image | Xataka In Xataka | The Bank of Spain alerts a malware capable of “capturing bank credentials.” His name: Trickmo

Brave New World ‘seems that it hasn’t helped

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The Marvel From Disney had a golden opportunity to make blur and new account. The circumstances of his last films and the last year were the perfect springboard for a blur and new account. But the result has finally been the most conservative possible, and has opted for continuity and the inherited problems of the last MCU, in a film that has good box office forecasts but that is still a real hot potato for Disney. Bad omens. 2023 ended bitterly for Disney: ‘Quantumania‘ and ‘The Marvels‘They had results at the box office, if not disastrous, of course less lucid than the entire MCU. It was corroborated that since ‘Endey me‘, Disney had not known how to wear the Marvel universe, and that had failed when continuing the legacy of the Avengers: infinitely less charismatic characters (‘Eternals‘), new deliveries of heroes who lived better times (‘Thor: Love and Thunder‘,’Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘) … phases four and five (which will end the imminent’ Thunderbolts’) have been pure wet gunpowder for Marvel. Marvel, 2024. At that time, Marvel stopped. Last year it only premiered Sony’s Spider-Man villains films (which did not work, but that does not affect Marvel too much, although it is true that They add up to some weariness to the public not versed in the rights limits of each other characters) and ‘Deadpool and Wolverine‘, which does not belong to the MCU. And yes, it was based on the promise of “rest this year, which will come the X-Men ‘. The return has been far from a return to the great Marvel greatness:’ Captain America: Brave New World ‘. A dazzled lap. It is difficult to list the problems of this new installment of ‘Captain America’, when there were problems from the same origin: the intervention of Harrison Ford was not planned, but the death of William Hurt (General Ross in the first Hulk film, the of Edward Norton of 2008) forced to look for a substitute. Since then, continuous rewriting and rethinking (the terrorist embodied for giancating him Esposito, for example, was intended for another actor) that have as a fruit a film full of patches and patches and Reshoots that visually, they are very noticeable (there are dialogues and more filling dialogues, very clearly shot in front of a green screen). The Marvel technique to start shooting with half writing and fixing them on the march had never settled with such a loose result. The worst MCU movie? ‘Quantumanía’ and ‘The Marvels were irregular films, but they had indisputable moments more than salvable: in the first one was modek, the design of the quantum kingdom, the presence of Kang; In the second, the cat gag, the moment of Indian musical, the action sequences … Here the fights, for example, are among the most reluctant ever seen in the MCU, the climax with the red hulk is. .. Well, anti -limitic. And the very scarce dramatic substance and charisma of the two protagonist heroes makes long combat sequences such as the confrontation against the airplanes of the army they take without hooking the viewer. Where it points. The referents of the MCU in which its plot base is ‘Brave New World’ is significant: a film that many do not know that it belongs to the MCU (‘The incredible Hulk’); the first Marvel box office failure (‘Eternals’); And one of the worst series of the company (‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘, which despite its unattractive, has some combat sequences that would already want’ Brave New World ‘). Significantly unattractive precedents for a film whose greatest sin is its very scarce sense of risk. Little risk. Among all the decisions that Marvel could have made, opt for continuism, to resume semi -pidered plot lines and for resorting to an aesthetic and plot springs that already begin to sound expired was the least risky. They could have made a real blur and new account, taking into account that the multiverse provided it on a tray, but no: The year that Robert Downey Jr. returns to Marvel It is also the year in which it is clear that Disney is not willing to part with old and exhausted customs. Header | Marvel In Xataka | The lesson that ‘Deadpool y Lobezno’ leaves Marvel: his fans no longer want to “do their homework” to understand their films

The world pharmaceutical industry has been sunk in its “Deepseek moment”: China is devouring it

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This summer we estee that, for the first time in history, China beat Europe as a new medication developer. It was not a stroke of luck: the pharmacist is one of the most complex sectors in the world and China has been determined to compete in it at the highest level. A decision that is paying off. So much that, today, the question is not whether China will stand up to the US. The question is whether the western pharmaceutical industry is facing its own “moment Deepseek“: The appearance of a more agile competitor, cheaper and (at least on paper) equally good. A small panoramic. Historically, Europe was always the great world pharmaceutical superpower. However, in the decade that goes between 1995 and 2005, the situation changed: the US made a very strong biomedical commitment and managed to advance the old continent. That has not changed in the last 20 years. In fact, according to the latest edition of the ‘The Pharmaceutical Industry in figures‘(The 2023), they say that the 90 new molecules, 28 were American compared to 17 of European origin. The surprise was another: that China had managed to put 25 on the table. And although that, alone it changes (almost) everything; There was something else. In autumn, summit therapeutics announced that its drug He had surpassed Keytruda, a well -known Merck immunotherapy against lung cancer that moves more than 30,000 million a year. To get an idea of ​​the bombing: only that news catapulted Summit to the top positions of world biotechnology (with a stock market capitalization of billions) even though … it has no approved drug. As David Wainer explained“China’s rise in biotechnology has been managing for years, but now it is impossible to ignore it.” In 2020, less than 5% of the large pharmaceutical transactions worth 50 million dollars or more were related to China. “In 2024, that figure had increased to almost 30%,” According to the journalist. Why does this happen? Although everything has some speculative air, experts agree that There are some key factors behind Of all this: Lower costs: both for the ease of access to highly qualified labor and low cost and access to thousands of people for optimized clinical trials. Minimum bureaucracy and less security obstacles that accelerate the market arrival process. And what consequences can it generate? That may be what most matches all this with What happened to Deep Seek: That the uncertainty about what may be doing in China, makes investors think much more if it is profitable to finance new projects. What is the point of spending hundreds of millions on something they can do in China for a dozen (And what, in fact, are surely doing even if we don’t know it)? And Europe? While innovation seems to go to China, Europe is still changed. Successes like Novo Nordisk and Ozempiceven invisible that we are losing a career that we should not lose (it is more, that we have been losing it for years). Josep Borrellformer high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has passed years saying that “When the pandemic arrived we realized that in Europe there was not a single gram of paracetamol.” That was something that did not worry anyone because Europe had always thought it was a problem of productive outsourcing. Now we are discovering that, along the way, we were outsourcing much more than that. Image | Mika Baumeister | Deepseek + Philipp Katzenberger In Xataka | Ozempic is sweeping. So much that it is a problem for supermarkets and sugary drinks

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