Causality is a concept deeply rooted in our understanding of the world and lies at the basis of the very notion of time. It plays an essential role in our […]
Titan brighter at twilight than in daylight
Muñoz, Antonio García, Panayotis Lavvas, and Robert A. West. “Titan brighter at twilight than in daylight.” Nature Astronomy 1, Article number: 0114 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0114 (arXiv) Investigating the overall brightness of […]
Discotic Liquid Crystals with Graphene
Kumar, Manish, Ashwathanarayana Gowda, and Sandeep Kumar. “Discotic Liquid Crystals with Graphene: Supramolecular Self‐assembly to Applications.” Particle & Particle Systems Characterization (2017). doi:10.1002/ppsc.201700003 (sci-hub) In past decades many breakthroughs have […]
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Creative mathematical tasks contribute to deeper learning in mathematics
Press Release Working with creative mathematical tasks is important for pupils both to reflect on mathematics as well as for their subsequent test results. Being faced with creative tasks during […]
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A quantum theory for thrones fans
Sydney University‘s delightful video in which academics predict who is going to win the Game of Thrones based on their disciplinary knowledge and understandings has had 62,500 Facebook likes, 900 […]
Institutionalizing creationism
by Michael Baltzley on Science 10 Jun 2016, Vol. 352, Issue 6291, pp. 1285-1286 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf7386 Biology faculty who teach evolution at U.S. colleges and universities often worry about the […]
Dawn of the quark ages
by Michael Brooks from NewScientist 3024, 6 june 2015 Ask them to name their heart’s truest desire, and many a science nut might say the answer to life, the universe […]
Nobel Prize 2015: Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”. via nobelprize.org
Nobel Prize 2015: Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura “for thier discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused […]