Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Few concepts in physics are as familiar, yet as enigmatic, as time. In Einstein’s theory of relativity, time is not absolute: its passage depends on motion and gravity. But when combined with […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Author: Alexander Lewis Peace, Associate Professor, Structural Geology, McMaster University Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate beneath the Cascadia Subduction Zone […]
Condensed matter • DIPC Advanced materials • DIPC Interfaces • Quantum physics
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 3 min Home In the world of quantum materials, some of the most important discoveries come not from finding new particles, but from learning to see familiar electrons in a new way. A striking example […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 3 min Home Author: Hossein Hashemi, Senior Lecturer, Division of Water Resources Engineering & Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University In recent years, residents of Spain, France and the UK have looked up […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home You probably have a member of your family that you’re not related to by blood—a step-parent, an adopted cousin, your mom’s best friend who you grew up calling your aunt. They’re indisputably […]
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 Imagine a glass of water or a bottle of ethanol. These are molecular liquids, substances where molecules are free to move but are still closely packed, interacting with each other through forces […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 3 min Home Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all physics. In the search for conditions suitable for these elements via “nucleosynthesis,” […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Authors: Lauren Claire Fong, PhD Candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne and Daniel Feuerriegel, Lecturer and Head of the Prediction and Decision-Making Lab, The University of Melbourne Imagine you’re in […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 3 min Home Author: Victor Etxebarria, professor, Dept. Electricidad y Electrónica. Fac. Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco-EHU DELTA is a 1.5-GeV synchrotron radiation source operated by the TU Dortmund University. This singular university-based […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Authors: Cordelia Fine, Professor, History & Philosophy of Science program, School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne; Kate Lynch, Lecturer in Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, and Morgan […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Author: Henry Taylor, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham What can you see right now? This might seem like a silly question, but what enters your consciousness is not the […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Author: Ry Holland, Research Fellow in Microbial Ecology, Monash University Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the Sun sets in April and does […]