Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min read Home For decades, scientists have searched the skies for signs of extraterrestrial technology, contacts. A study from EPFL asks a sharp question: if signals from technological aliens have already reached Earth without […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 7 min read Home Authors: Crisbel Cardenas 1, Eduardo Torre-Pascual 1,2 , Maite de Blas 1,2 , Estíbaliz Sáez de Cámara 1,2, Erlantz Lizundia 1,3 & Ion Agirre-Arisketa 1,2 1 Repsol Foundation Classroom on Energy […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min read Home In the world of organic chemistry, some rules are taught as absolute boundaries. One of the most famous is Bredt’s rule, a guideline that has dictated the limits of molecular architecture […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 7 min read Home Authors: Florian Bonnet, Démographe et économiste, spécialiste des inégalités territoriales, Ined (Institut national d’études démographiques); Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Docteur, spécialiste des méthodes de prévision (mortalité, longévité, etc.), Ined (Institut national d’études […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min read Home In order to build the computers and devices of tomorrow, we have to understand how they use energy today. That’s harder than it sounds. Memory storage, information processing, and energy use […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min read Home Author: Ari Koeppel, Postdoctoral Scientist in Earth and Planetary Science, Dartmouth College Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min read Home As we saw in our last entry, we must grant Gabriel that he does not conceive of the spirit and spiritual as an “immortal soul” or any similar ghostlike entity, but […]
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Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min read Home When we study solid-state physics, we usually begin with crystals. In a crystal, atoms repeat in a strict and regular pattern, much like tiles on a bathroom floor. Because every small […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 2 min read Home Hydrogels are fascinating materials that can absorb and retain large amounts of water, making them useful in various fields such as medicine, environmental science, and engineering. A recent study has explored […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 2 min read Home In a leap forward for quantum computing, a Microsoft team led by UC Santa Barbara physicists on Wednesday unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 14 min read Home Author: Florian Neukart, Assistant professor of Physics, Leiden University Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min read Home Authors: Roman Aseguinolaza, Quantum Hardware Predoctoral Researcher at CIC nanoGUNE & M. Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba, Quantum Hardware Group Leader and Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC nanoGUNE The material at the heart of […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min read Home Authors: Maxime Aubert, Professor of Archaeological Science, Griffith University; Adam Brumm, Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University; Adhi Oktaviana, Research Centre of Archeometry, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional Indonesia (BRIN), and Renaud […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min read Home Authors: Ben Mather, ARC Early Career Industry Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne; Adriana Dutkiewicz, ARC Future Fellow, Sedimentology, University of Sydney; Dietmar Müller, Professor […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min read Home Author: Daisy Fancourt, Professor Psychobiology and Epidemiology, UCL Vincent van Gogh sliced off his ear with a knife during a psychotic episode. Ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky developed schizophrenia and spent the […]