Hawkers: Elche to LA (and Netflix)
The Valencian sunglasses manufacturer, Hawkers, has reached an agreement with Netflix to provide the ‘shades’ for a new Tv series, Jaguar’, a story of…
Valencian Football
The Spanish league is undoubtedly the best in the world, with top class player such as Messi. For the 2020/21 season, there will be…
Slowwalk: Lovely Corns on My Feet
There was a time when having corns on your feet was unpleasant, and a trip to the chiropodist was called for. Today however, it’s…
There Must Be a (Gluco)Angel
The Valencia technological Company Instead has taken a step forward in helping diabetes sufferers. Their bracelet, Glucoangel’ offerers immediate, real time information about glucose…
Valencia Rockets into Space
PLD Space is to be the main partner in the Liquid Propulsion Stage Recovery (LPSR) of the European Space Agency (ESA), whose aim is…
Elche Lab Leads Anti-Zika Mission
The Elche- based laboratory Genetic PCR has developed a new, “highly inclusive” RT-qPCR kit for rapid genetic detection of the Zika virus. The RT-qPCR…
Elche, the Final Frontier
PLD Space, based in the Science Park of Alicante University in Elche, is the first Spanish company to obtain a contract to test liquid…
Cocktails RU
Most of us enjoy a relaxing cocktail from time to time, as long as they are not of the Molotov variety, named after the…
The Friendly Ghost in the Machine
The word ‘robot’ is one of the few words in the English language deriving from Czech, and whose original meaning is ‘slave’, or somebody…