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++ 🌙 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++ 🌙 4 min Home Isotope analysis of gas from geothermal springs in Zambia could show that a new continental rift is forming . Unexpectedly high helium isotope ratios indicate that a weakness in Earth’s crust has […]
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++ 🌙 4 min Home Chirality is one of the most familiar ideas in science. Human hands are chiral because the left and right hand are mirror images that cannot be perfectly aligned on top of one […]
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 Authors: Beatriz Pardo-Rodríguez, Gaskon Ibarretxe and José R. Pineda. Department of Cell Biology and Histology. Faculty of Medicine and Nursery of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). One of the most […]
Chemistry • DIPC Advanced materials • DIPC Interfaces • Materials • Nanotechnology
Easy text A+ A++ 🌙 6 min Home Nanotechnology is like a playground for scientists, where they tinker with materials at the scale of atoms to create new tools and devices with extraordinary properties. One of the most exciting areas […]
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 […]
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 […]