Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home Author: José R. Pineda earned his Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona in 2006. Since 2007, he has conducted research at Institut Curie and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 3 min Home In recent years, “twistronics” has shown that simply changing how two crystal layers sit on top of each other can completely transform their electronic behavior. When two lattices are slightly mismatched in […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Authors: Kevin Burke, Associate Professor in Statistics, University of Limerick and David O’Sullivan, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick Recently, a cheerful 100-year-old message in a bottle was found […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 3 min Home Methane is the second-largest greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. According to the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, anthropogenic methane emissions account for nearly 45% of current net warming, making it an important […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 8 min Home If you’ve been following along with our philosophical journey, you’ll remember that we ended the last article with a pretty useful idea: the concept of “inferential prostheses.” These are tools that extend […]
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 Authors: Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco, Ussher Associate Professor in Nanomineralogy, Trinity College Dublin and Kristina Petra Zubovic, Researcher at the Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin Glitter is festive and fun – a […]
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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 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 […]
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 […]