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Celebrating 50 years of discoveries

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Josefina Barceló Jiménez / jbarcelo@elnuevodia.com

This year, the Arecibo Observatory celebrates its 50th birthday. The site has been visited by countless of scientists from all over the world, by students from kindergarden to college and has become a famous touristic destination.

Among its important contributions to science, the Arecibo Observatory has helped elaborate maps of distant planets, calculated distances between galaxies, registered waves that have traveled millions of light years, and observed new galaxies being born. 

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Vieques lagoon could be one of the most contaminated in the world

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Alba Y. Muñiz Gracia/alba.muniz@gfrmedia.com

Puerto Rican scientists and environmentalists are demanding that a channel that linked the Anones lagoon in Vieques to the sea be closed and that the lagoon's grounds be opened to local researchers to perform environmental toxicity studies. The lagoon, which was part of the U.S. Marine's firing range, has been found to have lead, napalm, merucry, arsenic, and reduced uranium residues, making it one of the most contaminated bodies of water in the world. The new channel that links the lagoon's waters to the open sea, is a health risk for fishermen and consumers.

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A new opportunity for Puerto Rican startups

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Registration for the second edition of the Founder Institute, Puerto Rico launches on April 25, 2013. The event, provides training and mentoring from established entrepreneurs.

In 2012, the founders of nine startups participated in the program. These were: Memory Palace, Keynote Star, Stography, iGeo, iGenApps, Qeta, Voiz.met, Crowdville y Dubsplit.

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Puerto Ricans under the scrutiny of MIT

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Yalixa Rivera Cruz / yrivera@elnuevodia.com

Interested in strengthening and growing the local start-up and business sector, the Foundation for Puerto Rico (FPR) celebrated recently, for the second consecutive year, a meeting between local entrepreneurs and MBA students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The companies reviewed by the students included Alchavo.com, Plastek, Grasslark y Grupo Guayacán.


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"Channel Earth" is turned off

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Until recently, people where able to experience space the way an astronaut would by watching the Dish Network Earth Channel, a 24 hour, seven days a week feed that broadcast directly from the commercial satellite Echostar 11. The author explains how the images where captured and transimitted to Earth. The camera stopped working recently, but fortunately for space aficionados, videos are still available on Youtube.


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The democratization of education

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Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have gained a lot of popularity in the last few years. Among other things, they allow one teacher to reach thousands of students with one class. The author reviews the offerings of three of the most populare MOOC programs: KhanAcademyedX, and Coursera.

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An oasis for the pharmaceutical sector

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Neolpharma, a Mexican pharmaceutical group specializing in the production of generic medicines and contract manufacturing, opened operations yesterday in Caguas in a plant that used to be owned by Pfizer. The company might be a new business model for Puerto Rico, for the research and development market of "differentiated generics", a type of off-patent medicines that are more technically challenging to produce than regular generics. Neolpharma relocated to Puerto Rico, despite higher production costs, because of the talent pool of potential workers.

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Trio of students will represent Puerto Rico in robotics competition in California

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Aurora Rivera Arguinzoni / arivera@elnuevodia.com

Three Puerto Rican teenagers will travel to California to represent Puerto Rico at the VEX Robotics Competition.

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Science funding in Puerto Rico at risk

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Con la alta criminalidad, el desempleo y el menú de controversias políticas del día, ¿a quién le podría importar un asuntito de científicos?

De primera instancia, quizás el lector piense que los problemas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) con la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias (National Science Foundation, NSF) no le conciernen. Pero el problema con la NSF no es un asunto que solo afecta a un puñado de académicos.

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Discussing advances to counter coastal erosio

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Por Gerardo E. Alvarado León / galvarado@elnuevodia.com

Local and international scientists wil gather in Rincón, February 19-22 to celebrate de 8th International Symposium on Artifical Corals and Surfing Sciences 

Those interested in participating should contact (787) 632-8329 o or visit the event page at www.imprs2013.org


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