English to Spanish Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. Sociology.

I would like to know the best translation of this phrase from American English into Latin American Spanish.

Colleagues from Spain, feel free to send me your suggestions as well. This is a translation about sociology. Is okay to translate it as através de unos experimentos vistosos?

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We’re talking 18-hour-days shivering on a research station roof in -40 degree temps to measure concentrations of chlorine in the air. Through some snazzy experiments and smart thinking, she discovered that the problem was CFCs, chlorofluorocarbons, the stuff in aerosol spray cans and some refrigerators. If we just banned the junk, the ozone hole would close, she posited.