Corannulene is a carbon molecule with a unique shape (similar to the better known fullerene)…
Month: February 2015
Experimental ‘short cut’ reduces from millennia to minutes the time needed to measure glass viscosity
Researchers have designed a method which indirectly measures the viscosity of glass – something that…
How carbonates behave in Earth’s interior
Carbonates are the most important carbon reservoirs on the planet. But what role do they…
How do vertebrates take on their form?
A simple physical mechanism that can be assimilated to folding, or buckling, means that an…
Personal navigation: How we know where we are
Knowing where we are and remembering routes that we’ve walked are crucial skills for our…
New algorithms locate where a video was filmed from its images and sounds
Researchers have created a system capable of geolocating videos by comparing their audiovisual content with…
Even mild heart failure can lead to sudden death
Sudden cardiac arrest is a possible cause of death in patients with non-ischemic cardiac muscle…
Technology changing teacher’s role
Along with technological development, traditional teaching methods have been challenged by various technologically enhanced teaching…
Patterns in large data show how information travels
Analysis of massive online data can reveal what information matters to us and with whom…
New figures on two muscular dystrophy disorders
Public health researchers report the freqency of two muscle-weakness disorders that strike mostly boys: Duchenne…