Enable Focus Mode 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 […]
Enable Focus Mode 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 […]
Enable Focus Mode A+ A++ 🌙 5 min read Home In my last entry we had a glimpse on the ideas of one of the three main ‘fathers’ of ‘the’ scientific method, Francis Bacon. As I told then, inverted commas […]
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Enable Focus Mode 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 […]
Enable Focus Mode 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 […]
Enable Focus Mode 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 […]
Enable Focus Mode 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 […]
Enable Focus Mode A+ A++ 🌙 3 min read Home For decades, Type Ia supernovae have played a pivotal role in the discovery and study of dark energy—the mysterious force responsible for the accelerating expansion of the Universe. To do […]
Enable Focus Mode A+ A++ 🌙 1 min read Home Whale songs reveal similarities to human speech Two new studies reveal that whale songs share sophisticated similarities with human speech, challenging the uniqueness of human language. Researchers found that humpback […]
Enable Focus Mode A+ A++ 🌙 4 min read Home The ability to uptake cellular debris and process the engulfed antigens for MHC class I presentation is mainly performed by a minority subset of dendritic cells . Immunologists identified them […]
Enable Focus Mode 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 […]
Enable Focus Mode 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 […]
Enable Focus Mode 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 […]
Enable Focus Mode 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 […]
Enable Focus Mode A+ A++ 🌙 3 min read Home Author: Victor Etxebarria, professor, Dept. Electricidad y Electrónica. Fac. Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco-EHU A Radio-Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) is a resonant cavity with a cylindrical symmetry divided in […]