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An eye-opening molecular explosion

Many macroscopic processes that are part of our everyday lives have their origins in the tiniest motions: a molecule absorbs light, causing atoms to move by fractions of the distance between them, individual bonds to form or break. This determines whether a plant can transform... click to read more

  • Rebecca Boll | Scientist at European XFEL, Schenefeld, Germany
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  • Till Jahnke | Professor at European XFEL, Schenefeld, Germany
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coulomb explosion
ultrafast imaging
free-electron lasers
molecular movies
Views 613
Reading time 4 min
published on Dec 19, 2022
Network resuscitation – pumping life into a failed complex system

We have seen this many times in movies: an unconscious protagonist is jolted back to life through abrupt electrical shocks from a defibrillator. But how is that possible? A functioning body is, after all, an intricate machinery of extremely complex organs, all having to perform... click to read more

complex systems
network science
network dynamics
resilience
Views 959
Reading time 4 min
published on Sep 15, 2022
Mathematical paradoxes unearth the boundaries of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made monumental strides in numerous areas over the last decade. One only has to look at the news to see the latest breakthrough, whether it’s an AI beating a world-champion player at some game, achieving human-level object recognition, or diagnosing cancer... click to read more

  • Matthew J. Colbrook | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK; Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway
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  • Vegard Antun | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK; Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway
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  • Anders C. Hansen | Professor at Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK; Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway
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AI
neural networks
stability
accuracy
mathematical paradoxes
Views 1247
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Aug 29, 2022
A House Of Toxins? How Cleaning Products Can Create An Unhealthy Living Environment

Most people associate a clean home with good hygiene and will therefore regularly clean their house. Indeed, the use of cleaning products and disinfectants have intensified in recent years, but our new study suggests that this may be doing us more harm than good: a... click to read more

  • Colleen Marciel F. Rosales | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Air Quality Research Center, University of California, Davis, USA
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  • Brandon E. Boor | Associate Professor at Lyles School of Civil Engineering; Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, Center for High Performance Buildings Purdue University, USA
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  • Philip S. Stevens | Professor at Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
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indoor air pollution
secondary chemistry
monoterpenes
Views 1216
Reading time 3 min
published on Aug 18, 2022
Creating Tiny Stars On Earth In The Quest For Fusion Power

Fusion is the physical process that powers the stars and harnessing this capability on Earth for carbon-free power generation is a grand challenge of modern physics. The potential payout is enormous – each gallon of seawater contains enough naturally-occurring fusion fuel (a special type of... click to read more

  • Christopher V. Young | Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
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fusion
burning plasma
inertial confinement
national ignition facility
Views 970
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Aug 1, 2022