Category: 7. Science

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Parts of the tectonic boundary between Africa and Asia may be creeping away from each other, as fresh evidence shows that a rift near the border of the two continents is slowly pulling apart at the pace of a very, very slow snail. 

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Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast flyby through a plume of Saturn’s icy moon.

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission found evidence of previously…

A vast, ancient structure discovered in Mexico may reveal how early Mayan civilisations understood the world to work. In their new study, archaeologists say that new findings indicate the 3,000-year-old site, known as Aguada Fénix, was a…

The interplay between light and magnetism holds promise for advances in quantum technologies, and recent research explores how to control light within unconventional systems. Shah Fahad, Muzamil Shah, and Gao Xianlong, from Zhejiang Normal…

DFT calculations and BdG model

We performed DFT calculations using the full-potential local orbital code FPLO³⁸ within the generalized gradient approximation³⁹, using the tetrahedron method with 12³ points for the Brillouin integration….

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I’m Sarah Al-Ahmed of The Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. When difficult times stifled his career, British filmmaker and…

A long-standing barrier in optoelectronics has been addressed by researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory. 

They have invented a molecular “back door” to power materials previously considered useless for modern…

Researchers at IFW Dresden and the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat announced on November 19 that they had identified a new form of superconductivity in the crystalline material PtBi₂. This form displayed a topological behavior and an…