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Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought

AstronomyAstrophysicsCosmology

By César Tomé

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of researchers has discovered that galaxies like our own Milky Way dominate throughout the universe and […]

Emotional language use and bilingualism

Emotional language use and bilingualism

Language

By Invited Researcher

Emotional Authors: Anna Hatzidaki, Assistant Professor and member of the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics (BiPsy) Lab, Dept. of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA); Mikel Santesteban, Senior Researcher and member of The Bilingual Mind research group, Dept. of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Our brain is […]

MI weekly selection #528

MI weekly selection #528

Weekly Selection

By César Tomé

Human bones in Spanish cave were likely used as tools Ancient humans excavated and modified the skeletons of their buried ancestors to possibly use as tools, according to a study from scientists studying remains at the Cueva de los Marmoles cave in southern Spain. Researchers identified the remains of at least 12 people buried between […]

Highly efficient, durable, and economically competitive hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst

Highly efficient, durable, and economically competitive hydrogen evolution electrocatalyst

CatalysisChemistryDIPC Advanced materials

By DIPC

Global energy demand is expected to rise around 30% by 2040 according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Hydrogen (H2) produced by the electrolysis of water, using renewable electricity, the so-called green hydrogen, has emerged as a promising energy vector to respond to this increasing energy demand with the potential to decarbonize transportation, heating, and […]

Sustainable use of natural resources in Pantanal communities

Sustainable use of natural resources in Pantanal communities

AnthropologyEcology

By Invited Researcher

pantanal Author: Rafael Morais Chiaravalloti, Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology, University College London “How can we use nature in a sustainable way?” That is a question I, together with colleagues from different parts of the world, have sought to answer for a decade. We are dedicated to studying issues related to the sustainable use of natural […]

How a lithium-ion battery electrode really works

How a lithium-ion battery electrode really works

Computer scienceMaterialsNanotechnology

By César Tomé

Billions of tiny particles packed into rechargeable lithium-ion battery electrodes are responsible for storing charge and making it available when it’s needed to do work. X-ray movies of this process show the particles absorbing and releasing lithium ions as the battery charges and discharges. Now, in an important step forward, researchers have used a type […]

MI weekly selection #527

MI weekly selection #527

Weekly Selection

By César Tomé

NASA’s MOXIE experiment generates oxygen on Mars NASA’s first mission to generate oxygen on Mars — the “Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment,” or MOXIE — has successfully concluded, the agency announced. The toaster-sized device on the Perseverance rover has produced 122 grams of oxygen that is at least 98% pure, which could be scaled […]

Milestone in the quest for THz magnonic devices working at room temperature

Milestone in the quest for THz magnonic devices working at room temperature

Condensed matterDIPC Advanced materialsMaterials

By DIPC

Magnons or spin waves are elementary quasiparticles, which represent a collective motion of magnetic moments in ordered systems. Spin waves can propagate in materials and therewith transport a spin current. This spin flow requires no electrical charge transport and therefore no electrical losses creating Joule heating. Spin waves enclose a wide frequency range, from gigahertz […]