Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 7 min Home We finish this series with the most influential author of our trio (together with Bacon and Descartes) in shaping the scientific method: the Italian Galileo Galilei, who was also, not coincidentally, the […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home When we look at the night sky, we see a scattered collection of stars and galaxies, but to an astrophysicist, these are merely the glowing foam on the crest of a much […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home Author: Enrique Gaztañaga, Professor at Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (University of Portsmouth) Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min 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 us […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 7 min 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 Transition […]
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++ 🌙 4 min Home Author: Martin Schaefer, Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience and Behavioral Psychology, Karolinska Institutet You have probably heard the saying that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but now it turns […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home In the previous entry I introduced my definition of a concept of empirical verisimilitude of a proposition H given the evidence E (or how close to the truth H seems under the […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 7 min 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 démographiques) […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 14 min 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 to […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min 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 the […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min 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 Joannes-Boyau […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min 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 of […]