Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Author: Melissa Lee, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Monash University Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home The idea sounds almost like science fiction: two tiny particles that are quantum mechanically linked might also be connected by microscopic shortcuts through spacetime itself, tiny wormholes. This possibility, known as the […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 2 min Home How can scientists see the intricate details inside cells far too small for regular light microscopes? A powerful technique called expansion microscopy is revolutionizing how researchers study tiny organisms from plankton to […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Light can do more than illuminate matter. In some metal complexes, it can break chemical bonds in a highly controlled way, releasing specific molecules only when and where light is applied. This […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home For more than two decades, the standard picture of the Universe has rested on a surprisingly simple idea. Space is expanding, galaxies are moving farther apart, and a mysterious ingredient called dark […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min 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, perfected […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min 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 rather […]
Condensed matter • DIPC Advanced materials • Materials • Quantum physics
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min 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 region […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home I finished my last entry expressing my perplexity by the ‘solution’ mathematicians offered six decades ago to the problem of the continuum : Cohen’s theorem according to which both the assumption that […]
Chemistry • Condensed matter • DIPC Computer Science • DIPC Electronic Properties • Quantum chemistry
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home Quantum chemistry is a field that dives into the behaviour of atoms and molecules at their most fundamental level, using the principles of quantum mechanics to understand how electrons interact within these […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home Author: Victoria Guerra-García, PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country, Dept. of Linguistics and Basque Studies (EHU) and member of The Bilingual Mind Research Group (Gogo Elebiduna) You’re in the […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Authors: Sarah Foster, Program Leader, Project Seahorse and Senior Researcher, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia and Amanda Vincent, Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Author: Tanya Latty, Associate Professor in Entomology, University of Sydney Imagine trying to build a house without a blueprint, find a shortcut through an unfamiliar city without a map, or govern a […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 7 min Home Author: José Luis Granados Mateo is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country. Two years ago, in March 2024, I […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Author: Howard Wiseman, Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many […]