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The University of Murcia participate this Friday, the 26th, for the seventh year in Researchers' Night, an initiative that is held simultaneously in over 200 European cities to present a closer view of science and scientists.
On Friday afternoon, the University of Murcia, through its Unit for Scientific Culture, offered for free at the Artillery Barracks 45 workshops, three exhibitions, guided tours of the Museum and the Aquarium of the University visits, a drawing competition and several lectures on topics such as the benefits of exercise or the care you need to take with self-medication, especially all activities aimed at families.
New this year, a stand designed to raise awareness of the history of the University of Murcia, on the occasion of the centenary of the educational institution will be enabled.
Attendees will enjoy experiments that border on the magical, like fireworks in test tubes, lit candle without touching them, getting different colored flames, drawing with invisible ink or disappearance of spots.
They will also check if it burns sugar and can burn treats, make Olympic medals, playing with words in other languages ​​and deepen the writing systems of the past and decryption (hieroglyphic, Hebrew, Sumerian).
Moreover, children may be chemical, physical or archaeologists for a day.
The minstrels of physics will be announced to the public interesting phenomena in various areas of physics (optics, mechanics, thermodynamics ...).
We will speak of transgenic trees and the future of food, showing seeds of native varieties.
Hand of researchers, stakeholders have the necessary techniques to "hunt" liars or detect whether or not we tell the truth, they will check what they know about the current crisis or can approach the fascinating world of water and living things live in it.
Among the options offered by the night, the younger will have the opportunity to make a practice of painting on handmade tile or paint with wine, in addition to knowing the properties of gelatin and agar as an artistic material.
There will also be an exhibition of Lego robots made by children, while students of Fine Arts will explain how research for new materials, substrates and poetic pictorial.
In turn, vehicles and e-Salzillo Fusang developed by university students and run by electricity and solar PV will be exposed.
Also, the station Onda Regional Murcia moves to Artillery Barracks to broadcast live.
It also will be a night full of music, which will begin with a concert by the University Orchestra and will culminate with a performance by the University of Medicine Tuna.
The Researchers' Night 2014 is the result of the European project whose motto is "Science for a better future", leading the University of Girona and also participate in a number of institutions, universities, museums, institutes and research centers in 14 cities in Spain: Barcelona, ​​Lleida, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Burgos, Badajoz, Cáceres, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Valladolid, Santander, Palencia, Soria, Zamora and Oviedo.
This project is funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission.
http://www.um.es/prinum/rn14
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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