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Nanotechnology inspired by nature

Nanotechnology inspired by nature

ChemistryMaterialsNanotechnology

By Invited Researcher

Author: Leire Gartzia Rivero got a Chemistry degree and completed her Master studies in “New Materials” at the University of the Basque Country. She holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Technology obtained at the same university, in the Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, where she focused on the spectroscopic characterization of photoactive nanomaterials based on energy […]

MI weekly selection #179

MI weekly selection #179

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Nonhuman primates may be involved in Zika transmission Scientists who collected biological samples from 15 wild marmosets and eight pet capuchin monkeys plus one free-ranging capuchin in Brazil found four marmosets and three capuchins had been infected with the Zika virus. The Scientist Cosmic-particle technology opens window into Bent Pyramid New cosmic-particle technology has allowed […]

Kant, you can’t

Kant, you can’t

Ethics

By Jesús Zamora Bonilla

As an intellectual discipline, moral philosophy is afflicted by a very deep ambivalence. On the one hand, moral philosophers have always pursued to have a prominent position in the debates about what is morally good and what is morally bad; most of their theories can be interpreted hence as sophisticated attempts to answer the old-as-mankind […]

The classical behaviour of the dark modes of silver nanotrimers

The classical behaviour of the dark modes of silver nanotrimers

Condensed matterMaterialsPhysicsQuantum physics

By DIPC

Nanoparticles of certain metals, like gold or silver, have attracted substantial interest in recent years owing to their ability to support localized surface plasmon resonances (collective oscillations of conduction electrons). These plasmonic excitations allow manipulation of light at the nanoscale and have enabled technological advances ranging from improved catalytic and photovoltaic cell efficiencies to sensitive […]

MI weekly selection #178

MI weekly selection #178

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Dali painting used in study of how brain processes information Scientists used a painting by Salvador Dali to help them discover how the brain processes information. Researchers asked study participants to examine Dali’s 1940 work “Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire,” which is visually ambiguous. “We found very early on … that the […]