Category archives: Technology

MI weekly selection #124

MI weekly selection #124

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Magnetic bands around sun may help predict solar flares Tracking the movements of traveling magnetic bands in the sun’s atmosphere may help predict solar flares, which can cause damaging power problems on Earth and wreak havoc on satellites, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Solar flares are at their worst when formed by […]

Darker than black quantum dots

Darker than black quantum dots

ChemistryMaterials

By DIPC

A quantum dot is a nanometric crystalline structure of semiconductor materials. In a quatum dot electrons are confined in a region of space, thus creating a well defined structure of energy levels that depends very much on the size and shape of the quantum dot. This structure resembles that of atoms, that is why sometimes […]

Word or LaTeX typesetting: which one is more productive? Finally, scientifically assessed

Word or LaTeX typesetting: which one is more productive? Finally, scientifically assessed

Computer science

By José Luis Blanco

One of the main goals for anyone in the Academia, for any research group, is to publish the results of their research . Therefore, enormous amounts of time and effort are devoted to producing manuscripts which will be evaluated for publication in scientific journals or international conferences. Being this goal so central to the career […]

MI weekly selection #123

MI weekly selection #123

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Young galaxy clusters discovered More than 200 young galaxy clusters have been documented by astronomers using data gathered by the Planck and Herschel space telescopes. The researchers have released photos of the clusters, which will be studied further in the hope answers can be found to many cosmic questions like how galaxies grow and the […]

MI weekly selection #122

MI weekly selection #122

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Dark matter detected as it coasts through galaxy collisions Dark matter appears to drift straight through galactic collisions, barely interacting with anything, including other dark matter, according to scientists who detected the mysterious stuff by the way it bends nearby light paths. Researchers used visible light spied by the Hubble Space Telescope and X-rays by […]

The true colour of chlorophylls

The true colour of chlorophylls

BiologyChemistryMaterials

By DIPC

Most leaves are various shades of green. This is due to the chlorophylls. The name chlorophyll comes from the Greek words chloros (green) and phyllon (leaf). There are six types of chlorophylls in plants. The two main chlorophylls are chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b. Chlorophyll a absorbs purple and orange light the most. Chlorophyll b […]

MI weekly selection #121

MI weekly selection #121

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Deep aurora in Mars seen by Maven spacecraft NASA’s Maven spacecraft spotted a strange aurora that lasted for five days and stretched deep into Mars’ northern atmosphere. Auroras on Mars have been observed previously, but scientists were intrigued by the depth of this one. In addition, Maven detected an unexpected high-altitude dust cloud. BBC Young […]