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MI weekly selection #314

MI weekly selection #314

Weekly Selection

By César Tomé

3rd fungus found in lichen Researchers have discovered a third fungus in lichen. In addition to an ascomycete and basidiomycete yeast, scientists have detected another basidiomycete, but they aren’t yet sure if this fungus has a symbiotic relationship with the lichen. The Scientist Microbes found hidden in deep-sea dolomite crystals near Japan Microbes have been […]

The dark collapse of merging galaxies as the origin of supermassive black holes

The dark collapse of merging galaxies as the origin of supermassive black holes

AstrophysicsCosmologyDIPC Computational Cosmology

By DIPC

I remember very well my physics professor during my first year at university. She stressed the importance of having clear intuitions of what physical terms mean before any mathematics was invoked. ‘Imagine someone drops an 100-gram apple 1 metre above your head’, she would say; ‘the pain you feel is the equivalent of a joule […]

MI weekly selection #313

MI weekly selection #313

Weekly Selection

By César Tomé

Astronomers may have observed black hole’s birth A strange blast approximately 200 million light-years away may have been the birth of a black hole. Astronomers first thought the blast, dubbed “The Cow” because its official name is AT2018cow, was from a black hole consuming a white dwarf, but “further observations of other wavelengths across the […]

MI weekly selection #312

MI weekly selection #312

Weekly Selection

By César Tomé

Photosynthesis fix may enhance food production Researchers are trying to replicate in food crops a change they made to tobacco plants that repaired a defect in photosynthesis in which plants inadvertently took hold of oxygen molecules instead of carbon dioxide, forcing the plant to use valuable energy clearing up that mistake. Researchers have tried to […]

A photonic crystal the size of a single free space wavelength

A photonic crystal the size of a single free space wavelength

Condensed matterMaterialsNanotechnologyQuantum physics

By DIPC

You can read this article because I have used photonics in order to make it possible. It may sound futuristic, but photonics is a technology we use, one way or the other, on a daily basis. Photonic devices are analogous to those used in electronics, but with the electrons replaced by photons. Thus, photonics is […]