Category archives: Science

Heaven from hell

Heaven from hell

Planetary Science

By Santiago Pérez-Hoyos

So, do you think you can tell heaven from hell? Well, David Gilmour does not believe you and, to be honest, neither do I. We use to think always about the Goldilock’s limits, within which the habitability of a system is determined strictly by its parent star distance and temperature. But, even if very useful […]

Looking for new materials with applications in organic solar cells

Looking for new materials with applications in organic solar cells

ChemistryMaterialsTCCM

By TCCM

Author: María A. Izquierdo-Morelos is a Ph.D. student (ITN-EJD-TCCM) at University of Groningen Over the past several decades researchers have thought how materials and device architectures can efficiently convert solar radiation into electrical power through the photovoltaic effect. Those efforts have led to different methods and processes to produce green energy. In this context, organic […]

MI weekly selection #203

MI weekly selection #203

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Strange objects near neighboring galaxies brighten, then dim A pair of unknown objects near neighboring galaxies appear to produce extremely bright X-ray flares, then dim after about an hour. Astronomers aren’t sure what these objects are, noting that nothing like them has ever been spotted in the Milky Way. New Scientist Landslides appear to have […]

Novel sources of clean energy: Where functional polynitrogen materials meet society’s needs.

Novel sources of clean energy: Where functional polynitrogen materials meet society’s needs.

ChemistryMaterialsTCCM

By TCCM

Author: Stefano Battaglia is a Ph.D. student (ITN-EJD-TCCM) at Université de Toulouse III Since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for groundbreaking discoveries on the two-dimensional material graphene, the research in low-dimensional carbon nanostructures has seen an incredible increase of interest. Among the different types of […]

Graphene band gap engineering using boron

Graphene band gap engineering using boron

ChemistryCondensed matterMaterialsNanotechnology

By DIPC

Among the astonishing properties of graphene, a high mobility of the charge carriers has placed this material into the focus of intensive research efforts, aimed at developing high-speed graphene-based electronic devices. The first device of this family, a graphene field-effect transistor (GFET), still remains a promising candidate for applications in flexible electronic circuits. An essential […]

MI weekly selection #202

MI weekly selection #202

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Single-celled amoeba uses molecular mechanisms similar to complex life The single-celled amoeba Capsaspora owczarzaki has the same molecular tools as more complex organisms to help it move through various life stages. The findings suggest multi-celled mechanisms may have been in place long before animals evolved. Science News New questions raised about Lyme disease following discovery […]