Biochemistry • Biology • Chemistry • Geosciences • Planetary Science
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 2 min Home Asteroids and planetesimals regularly bombarded Earth between about 4.6 billion and 3.5 billion years ago, during the Hadean and Archean eons. Because few rocks today are more than 4 billion years old […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 7 min Home In our previous entry, I explicated two different concepts that in many languages are subsumed under a single term ‘life’, or equivalent, but that in ancient Greek were separated as two truly […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home Over a century ago, quantum physics revealed a surprising fact: truly identical particles do not behave like tiny billiard balls. When two indistinguishable particles meet under the right conditions, they can interfere […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Author: Kovi Rose, Astrophysics PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Kovi Rose, University of Sydney A pair of stars spiralling around each other. That’s the origin of a new source of repeating radio […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 2 min Home Climate change and sea level rise are altering the chemistry of Biscayne Bay in ways that could threaten South Florida’s coastal ecosystems, water resources, fisheries, and recreation, according to a study led […]
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 Organic electronics in the form of organic solar cells — thin, flexible, and printable on everyday surfaces — promise a sustainable future in renewable energy. Unlike traditional silicon-based solar panels, organic photovoltaic […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 2 min Home A team led by astronomers at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia (U.S.) have, for the first time, robustly detected semi-heavy water ice around a […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Authors: Anna Jon-And, Director of Centre for Cultural Evolution, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese, Stockholm University and Johan Lind, Senior Associate Professor in Ethology, Linköping University Why do humans have language and other […]
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++ 🌙 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 […]