Light refraction accounts for the change of direction and speed that a wave undergoes when passing from one medium to another. Glasses and contact lenses, microscopes and telescopes, or something as commonplace as the fact that a pencil inserted into a glass of water appears bent when viewed from the outside, have their origin in the optical phenomenon of refraction.

Terahertz radiation has become an important diagnostic tool in the development of new technologies. However, the diffraction limit prevents terahertz radiation (λ ≈ 0.01–3 mm) from being focused to the nanometer length scale of modern devices. In response to this challenge, terahertz scanning probe microscopy techniques based on coupling terahertz radiation to subwavelength probes such as sharp tips have been developed.

Focusing of light into the nanoscale represents a landmark for the implementation of nanotechnology in optics and biochemistry. Based on the exotic propagation of light in highly anisotropic materials (where light propagates in the form of rays along specific directions), a research team led by the University of Oviedo has demonstrated the focusing of infrared light into extraordinarily small regions.

The collaboration agreement for the project, which is expanding year on year, was signed this morning. The 17 organizations signing up to the agreement on the 6th edition of Emakumeak Zientzian are a significant representative sample of the Basque Country’s science and technology network. This coming together is the result of an open-door initiative always aspiring to unite and convinced that we are better off by adding.

The quantum simulation method and program developed by Artacho and others, known by its acronym SIESTA, is open and free for the research community.

In the framework of this program, the Basque nanoscience research center will be receiving this summer at least ten new students in their 3rd and 4th years of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering. For a period of two months, undergraduates will be collaborating with nanoGUNE researchers in their research projects in the areas of nanoscale optics, nanobioengineering, electronic phenomena and magnetism, and nanoscale materials.

The book sets out to explain to the general public how cutting-edge research is conducted in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. How does “the big challenge of the small” materialize on a day-to-day basis? How can a truly innovative, daring project come to fruition? The story, written in a lively style by the journalist Elixabete Garmendia, answers this question which can now be read in Basque, Spanish and English.

The Winter School 2022 is geared primarily towards undergraduate students of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering who are considering the possibility of continuing their education by doing a PhD thesis. The winter school includes a combination of academic lectures, cross-skills training sessions and laboratory practice in the center's various laboratories.

In the first call back in 2020, 35 projects were registered and the winning company was Dutch, which underlines the international nature of the call. These results have spurred the launch of this new call in 2022, now with the additional contribution of Fomento San Sebastián.

This contest is geared towards students who are currently attending schools in the Basque Autonomous Community: young people residing in the Basque Autonomous Community, and young Basque speakers from anywhere in the world, all of whom were between 14 and 17 years of age on 31/12/2021. So the participants will be in one of the following education levels: the 3rd and 4th year of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO), 11^th or 12^th

The diversity of application fields demonstrates the great versatility of nanoscience research, and the increase in licensed methods and technologies demonstrates its ability to improve and add value to industrial processes and products. "Our goal is to continue doing research of excellence and transferring those specific developments with the potential to improve the competitiveness of companies to the economic sector," explained Ainara Garcia-Gallastegui, head of Technology Transfer at nanoGUNE.

The Basque Nanoscience Research Center, nanoGUNE, located in Donostia – San Sebastian (Basque Country, Spain), offers four scholarships to do a research project within one of its 10 research groups, including a rigorous scientific training, a close supervision, access to regular scientific seminars and colloquia, as well as access to suitable laboratory facilities.

The exhibition, organized as part of the Bizkaia Zientzia Plaza initiative, brings together authors, works and tools of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The public will be able to contemplate images of different nano-objects captured by amazing instruments, such as the atomic force microscope and the electron microscope, among others, which have become the "eyes of the nanoworld"; they will be able to see some of the tools used in this field, as well as real products and objects from day-to-day research.

The main aim of the work by BIC Gipuzkoa is to seek out and set up science and technology-based projects and enterprises in Gipuzkoa. So, “it is essential to nudge or drive forward technologies that are being developed at centers such as nanoGUNE to give them the final impetus they need to achieve this goal”, as Marisa Arriola, managing director of BIC Gipuzkoa pointed out.

The 24 signatory entities of the agreement for the joint organization of the 7th edition of Emakumeak Zientzian are an important representative sample of the fabric of science and technology in the Basque Country: the Center for Materials Physics (CFM CSIC-UPV/EHU), Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, CIC biomaGUNE, CIC nanoGUNE, University of Deusto, POLYMAT, Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3), Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), Biodonostia, Ceit, Cidetec, Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Elhuyar, Eure

The Winter School 2023 is geared primarily towards undergraduate students of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering who are considering the possibility of continuing their education by doing a PhD thesis. The winter school comprises a combination of academic lectures, cross-skills training sessions and laboratory practice in the center's various laboratories.