Check out our latest #MappingIgnorance post and learn about Moiré collapse, when a twisted crystal becomes one-dimensional 👇 📃de Sousa DJO, Lee S, Guinea F, & Low T Moiré collapse and Luttinger liquids in twisted anisotropic homobilayers Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2026) @imdeanano.bsky.social

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Researchers show that twisting sufficiently anisotropic materials such as black phosphorus or tin selenide can convert two-dimensional moiré systems into platforms for one-dimensional correlated physics. https://mappingignorance.org/2026/07/30/moire-collpase/

🔬 ¿A tu vida le falta ciencia? Vuelve Passion for Knowledge, el festival que conecta a la ciudadanía con las figuras que han revolucionado la ciencia. 📅 Programa completo, muy pronto 🌐 p4k.dipc.org/es/inicio #PassionDIPC

🔬 Zure bizitzari zientzia falta al zaio? Passion for Knowledge bueltan da, herritarrak eta zientzia irauli duten ikertzaileak lotzen dituen jaialdia 📅 Egitarau osoa, laster. 🌐 p4k.dipc.org/eu/ #PassionDIPC

Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 The Dwarf Galaxy-Halo Connection from Milky Way Satellites 👩‍🔬 Nicole Marcelina Gountanis, Ohio State University 🗓️ July 28, 12h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

Today #DIPC Colloquia 👇 📌 Four geometrical-optics illusions 👨‍🔬 Michael Berry, University of Bristol 🗓️ July 24, 12h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

Turning low-energy light into high-energy light—without breaking the laws of physics 🔦 Check out this #MappingIgnorance article review

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Minimal molecular changes can redirect photochemical roles, advancing radical-based upconversion materials. https://mappingignorance.org/2026/07/23/a-new-route-to-photon-upconversion/

Check out this #MappingIgnorance article review about rewriting the rules of heteroepitaxy with a flexible crystal 🔎https://tinyurl.com/2a5mvvr4 @ehu.eus @katedra.eus @cfmdonostia.bsky.social

Rewriting the rules of heteroepitaxy with a flexible crystal

When symmetries differ, the upper crystal grows in several orientations at once, unless the base crystal is flexible in the right way.

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Curious about the latest advances in bio-interface simulations? Check out this #MappingIgnorance article review: Overcoming bottlenecks in bio-interface simulations: The MartiniSurf Approach 🔎https://tinyurl.com/4hded2a9  @cicbiomagune.bsky.social @ehu.eus @katedra.eus

MartiniSurf, overcoming bottlenecks in bio-interface simulations

MartiniSurf makes it easier to study how surface, geometry, and molecular flexibility shape the behavior of immobilized biomolecules

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Last chance to register for NanoNeuro 2026, a free online conference by Neurotechnology Center at Columbia University and DIPC 📅 July 29, 2026 🕘 9:00 AM–2:00 PM EDT | 3:00 PM–8:00 PM CEST ⏳ Registration closes July 24 at 1:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM CEST) 🔗 https://ntc.columbia.edu/nanoneuro-2026-2/

Looking for a scientific adventure? #mappingignorance  The Particle Odyssey: ITACA and the Quest for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay 🔎https://tinyurl.com/bjh6w5yc @ehu.eus @mappingignorance.org

ITACA and the quest for neutrinoless double beta decay

ITACA is an alternative approach where the point is to image not only the electrons but also the positive ions left behind by the ionization

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Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 Simultaneous realization of ferromagnetic and overscreened Kondo effect in coupled nanographenes 👨‍🔬 David Jacob, Universidad de Alicante campusUA 🗓️ July 20, 12h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

🚀 Zientzia-dibulgazioa gustoko duzu? Batu DIPCko Dibulgazio eta Komunikazio taldera!  🔎+INFO: https://tinyurl.com/ak96yd62 🚀 ¿Te interesa la divulgación científica? ¡Únete al equipo de Divulgación y Comunicación del DIPC! 🔎+INFO: https://tinyurl.com/ak96yd62

Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 Noisy quantum cryptography  👨‍🔬 Tamás Kozsik & Ottó Hanyecz, Eötvös Loránd University 🗓️ July 17, 12h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

We've got a new PhD!👏👏 Today, Minh Nguyen defended his #PhD thesis 'Wave Interference and Topological Phenomena in Multilayer Systems', carried out under the supervision of Dario Bercioux (DIPC, Ikerbasque) Zorionak Minh! 🥳

Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 Revealing hidden Dirac cones in the 3D topological insulators 👩‍🔬 Magdalena Marganska, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology 🗓️ 2026/07/14, 12:00 🏫 DIPC Seminar Room, In person seminar

Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 Synthesis and Sequencing of Abiotic Polymers, Information Encoding and Sequence Selective Hybridization 👨‍🔬 Eric Anslyn,@utaustinchemistry.bsky.social  🗓️ July 13,12:00 🏫 DIPC Seminar Room Zoom: https://dipc-org.zoom.us/j/96375053014 Youtube: https://youtube.com/live/VlV9zooPnRE

Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 Real-time electron dynamics in condensed matter: insights from wave packet propagation 👨‍🔬 Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, @uam.es  🗓️ 2026/07/10, 12:00 🏫 DIPC Seminar Room, Hybrid Seminar Zoom: https://dipc-org.zoom.us/j/91771128540 Youtube: https://youtube.com/live/69kNuYbLAfE

Congrats to Ikerbasque Prof. at DIPC Juan Manuel García-Ruiz and his team for the ERC Proof of Concept! The project MIN-H2 was the only one awarded to a researcher from an institution within the Basque science and innovation ecosystem. + info:

DIPC project secures European funding to explore a new pathway for sustainable hydrogen production

The initiative is being led by Ikerbasque Professor Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Principal Investigator of the ERC Synergy project PROTOS and head of DIPC’s Mineral Self-Organisation and Origin of Life research group.

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Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 Visualizing Dynamic Molecular Manipulation on a Graphene Field Effect Transistor 👨‍🔬 Hsin-zon Tsai, National Cheng Kung University 🗓️ July 8, 12h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 Behind the Scenes at Physical Review Letters: An Editor’s Perspective  👩‍🔬 Rocío Cortés, @apsphysics.aps.org  🗓️ July 6, 12h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

Honelakoa izan zen gure eraikin berriaren inaugurazioa, Imanol Pradales Lehendakariarekin, erakundeetako ordezkariekin, gure patronatuarekin eta gure komunitate zientifikoarekin batera Onena etortzear dago!

DIPC's 2025 Activity Report is now available! Its pages showcase all the scientific and outreach activities carried out by DIPC throughout the year. 🔗 You can download the whole report here: https://tinyurl.com/3j3jyf8k

#2DSPM2026 comes to an end after a week of science. Thank you to speakers, attendees, and organizers Miguel M. Ugeda (DIPC,CFM-MPC,Ikerbasque) and Iván Brihuega (@uam.es-IFIMAC) Congratulations to Prof. Eva Andrei on her 2026 Kavli Prize. We were delighted to mark the occasion with a Basque txapela.

A new #MappingIgnorance post is here! Star clusters as fossils of galactic history  🔎https://tinyurl.com/3x4ejecr @liraastro.bsky.social @mpi-astro.bsky.social @ehu.eus  @katedra.eus @ice-csic.bsky.social @herts.ac.uk

Star clusters as fossils of galactic history - Mapping Ignorance

A recent study has extended L-Galaxies 2020, to include the formation and long-term evolution of individual massive star clusters

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Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 Kimika Teorikoa Seminar: Electronic Structure and Reactivity at High Pressure using Hydrostatic Pressure Models 👨‍🔬 Jochen Eeckhoudt, DIPC 🗓️ June 26, 10h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

We've got a new PhD!👏👏 Today, Jozef Janovec defended his #PhD thesis 'From optical properties to passive radiative cooling applications of cement-based materials', carried out under the supervision of Jorge Sánchez Dolado and Andrés Ayuela Zorionak Jozef! 🥳

🎉Imanol Pradales Lehendakariarekin batera, gure eraikin berria inauguratu dugu, Eusko Jaurlaritzaren finantzaketari esker gauzatua Junto al Lehendakari Imanol Pradales, inauguramos nuestro nuevo edificio, financiado por el Gobierno Vasco 👉https://dipc.ehu.eus/eu/aktualitatea/albisteak/inaugurazioa

🏗️ The new #DIPC building is now a reality! DIPCren eraikin berria errealitatea da dagoeneko! El nuevo edificio del DIPC ya es una realidad!

Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 Topological photonic nano-structures for control of classical and quantum light, and light-matter interactions  👨‍🔬 Alexander Khanikaev | CREOL - College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida 🗓️ June 23, 16h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room

Today #DIPCseminars 👇 📌 Molecular Spin Qubits toward Quantum Computer and High-Density Memory Devices Based on Molecular Magnets  👨‍🔬 Masahiro Yamashita, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University 🗓️ June 23, 12h 🏫 DIPC Josebe Olarra Seminar Room