Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Nanogels are among the most interesting examples of how chemists can build useful structures by working at the scale of single molecules. They are tiny soft particles made from polymers, long chain-like […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Author: Marta Irigoyen is a postdoctoral researcher at CIC bioGUNE T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) and T-cell acute lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) are aggressive hematological malignancies that arise from abnormal activation of oncogenes […]
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++ 🌙 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 […]
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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: Victor Etxebarria, professor, Dept. Electricidad y Electrónica. Fac. Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco-UPV/EHU Magnetrons are high-power vacuum tubes conceived more than a century ago to produce microwaves. Their working […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, scientists are turning to tiny glowing molecules and powerful microscopes to detect elusive particles. Two groundbreaking studies, one published in ACS Sensors […]
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 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 […]