Condensed matter • DIPC Advanced materials • Materials • Quantum physics
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home Every time a computer processes information, electrons shuttle through circuits carrying electric charge, and much of the energy they carry is wasted as heat. Spintronics proposes a different approach: instead of relying […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Author: Ry Holland, Research Fellow in Microbial Ecology, Monash University Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the Sun sets in April and does […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home MIT neuroscientists have figured out how the brain is able to focus on a single voice among a cacophony of many voices, shedding light on a longstanding neuroscientific phenomenon known as the […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home Author: Marta Irigoyen is a postdoctoral researcher at CIC bioGUNE T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) is a precursor T cell lymphoma. T-LBL represents the second most common subtype of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in both […]
Condensed matter • DIPC Electronic Properties • Materials • Quantum physics
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Imagine taking two identical sheets of chicken wire and laying them on top of one another. If you align them perfectly, they look like a single sheet. But if you rotate the […]
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++ 🌙 8 min Home I shall end this series on the problem of verisimilitude by sketching the main methodological norms that can be derived from our favorite definition of “empirical truthlikeness” –remember: the verisimilitude of a […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home The interplay between the electron and phonon dynamics in 2D materials is a complex and fascinating subject. By examining the behaviour of NbSe₂ on graphene, a new study has provided new insights […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 4 min Home Author: Atheena Johnson, Docteure en linguistique appliquée, Université Paris Nanterre Over the decades, technological devices have been gradually integrated into language learning, as is recently the case with generative artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 7 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++ 🌙 4 min Home Author: Jordi Diaz Marcos, CCiTUB , Universitat de Barcelona As good citizens, we diligently fill the recycling bins provided by our local authorities with all manner of plastic trays, boxes, bottles and […]
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 5 min Home Author: Steven Gillespie, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool Psychopaths might account for only about 1% of the general population, but they account for a disproportionate share of violent crime […]
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 […]