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Nanomachines win Nobel Prize
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded last month by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to a trio of European scientists.
Sir Fraser Stoddart, from Scotland, Dr. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, from France, and Dr. Bernard Feringa, from the Netherlands, will share the 8m Swedish kronor prize between them.
The Nobel was awarded for the generation of the world's smallest machines. The machines created by the laureates are one thousand times smaller than a single strand of hair.
In all living...
How interfering with your vision can shatter your recall of the way things look
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
How do we recall our stored knowledge of the physical properties of objects? Do we "see" things all over again when asked simple questions about the way common and familiar things look? Do brain centers that process visual images fire up all over again when we think about the physical properties of things or is it a more abstract process? "Yes" to the last two questions, according to Pierce Edmiston and Dr. Gary Lupyan of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin at...
Mars welcomes its latest orbiter ExoMars
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
On 19th October 2016 the European-Russian mission ExoMars arrived at its destination. It delivered the Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO and an experimental lander, called Schiaparelli. Not everything went quite as planned, but it was a success, said European Space Agency (ESA) executives in a press briefing. The good news is that TGO entered its orbit perfectly. From there, it will sniff the Martian atmosphere searching, among other things, for traces of life on the planet. It will also serve as a...
Looking through 'Smart' Windows
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
Have you ever wanted a window that you could control how much light and heat it let in?
Thanks to scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, this might now be possible! The researchers have created a new flexible smart material that can be incorporated into windows, sunroofs and many other glass surfaces, which will have the ability to control both heat and light from the sun.
Dr. Delia Milliron, from the University of Texas, led the study, which has been recently...
Welcome to the neighborhood, Proxima b!
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
Scientists of the European Southern Observatory (ESO, headquartered right here in Munich!) discovered a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to us. If the solar system were a condo, this planet---called Proxima Centauri b or Proxima b for short---would be an apartment in the building across the street! Whether anyone lives there, however, is a completely different story. Unable to see the planet directly, the team of scientists used an ingenious system to find it, carefully...
Turning a new leaf in the search for lower emissions
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
Carbon dioxide (or CO2) is probably the most notorious atmospheric public enemy. Being a potent greenhouse gas, it contributes heavily to global warming, ocean acidification and everything that comes with them. Understandably, then, scientists have tried a number of ways to reduce its amount, from burying it underground to (with surprising success) turning it into stone. However, the only sustainable solution to get CO2 levels under control is to produce less of it. In a study published in...
Bacteria Needed to Save Coral Reef
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
Welcome to Jupiter!
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
Stretching quantum cats could make for better computers
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
A team of physicists at Yale demonstrated that the inherent quantum weirdness can be harnessed to make quantum computers, and that cats would help do it---sort of. While classical computers (the kind you use to read this article) encode information in bits that can be either 0 or 1, quantum computers use quantum bits (or qubits) that can be both 0 and 1 at the same time, in a so-called "quantum superposition". In this, they resemble the famous Schrödinger's cat, both dead and alive until we...
"Happy little accident" opens new avenues for amazing future batteries
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
Predicting the tipping point of complex systems
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
Networking: Nature or Nurture?
April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM
Interview with expert science communicator Alaina Levine who is the author of 'Networking for Nerds'.
Could you tell us a little bit about your background and connection to science?
I've always had four parallel paths in my life; one was in science, one was in business, one was in the performing arts and one was in written communications. I love doing all four of those things. But what I really loved was science and so I came to the University of Arizona (UoA). I ended up getting two degrees;...
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