Pere Estupinyà is a biochemist. He gave up on his doctorate in genetics to devote his efforts to the popularization of science. He has published two books of this kind, and we will shortly be seeing him on television. He will be one of those participating in “100xCIENCIA” and he thinks highly of an event where the Severo Ochoa centres of excellence can meet together with specialists in outreach, and science journalists.

Pampa García Molina is the Editor-in-Chief of one of the most highly valued projects of science news and outreach in Spain. This is the SINC Agency, an agency for quality news backed by the FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology). She will be one of the lecturers at the “100XCIENCIA” forum, and she is convinced that this will be a great opportunity to spread the word about the most outstanding research centres in the country.

Rosa M. Tristán is one of the pioneers of the speciality of Science and the Environment in the Spanish press. She was the founder of the first section dedicated to these matters in a national newspaper -El Mundo- which for her meant “a privileged gateway to knowledge” as she herself puts it. Now she is working among other projects, in her own medium “Laboratory for sapiens”, with its own news section and a good number of subscribers and visits. She will be one of the participants in the “100xCIENCIA” forum where communicators and scientists will debate about their respective roles in the

Los 20 centros de investigación de excelencia Severo Ochoa se reúnen con divulgadores de la ciencia en este encuentro donde participan más de 200 personas. El periodista científico Kennet Chang de The New York Times impartirá la charla inaugural

Gracias al acuerdo firmado entre ambas instituciones, el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) concede 25 ayudas a jóvenes periodistas científicos o estudiantes de periodismo de últimos cursos y de distintos países para asistir a “100xCIENCIA”, uno de los encuentros más importantes en esta materia y que levanta más expectación internacional.

Using the GTC telescope, an international team lead be astronomers of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has detected galaxies feeding directly from cosmic web gas. The observation is both expected and surprising – gas feeding is expected from theory, but had never been observed before.