Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Light can do more than illuminate matter. In some metal complexes, it can break chemical bonds in a highly controlled way, releasing specific molecules only when and where light is applied. This […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home For more than two decades, the standard picture of the Universe has rested on a surprisingly simple idea. Space is expanding, galaxies are moving farther apart, and a mysterious ingredient called dark […]
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++ 🌙 5 min Home Pressure is usually imagined as a force that simply squeezes matter into a smaller space. At the molecular level, however, the story is more subtle. A recent computational chemistry study explored how […]
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++ 🌙 5 min Home Author: Saioa Manzano-Morales, PhD candidate at the Comparative Genomics group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) All cellular life as we know it today stems from a single common ancestor, from which […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home In the realm of modern physics, few materials have captured the imagination quite like graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. Its remarkable properties, such as exceptional […]
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 […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Author: Howard Wiseman, Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many […]
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++ 🌙 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 […]