Ph.D. candidate Petr Steindl creates complex structures of light using single photons. As a teenager, he wanted to study Czech poetry but decided on quantum physics. "Looking back, I am glad I switched fields," he says. On ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 5, 2023
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Language can be a time machine—we can learn from ancient texts how our ancestors interacted with the world around them. But can language also teach us something about people whose language has been lost? Ph.D. candidate ...
Archaeology
Jul 3, 2023
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A block of rubber that can count to ten and even remember the order in which it is pressed—physicists Martin van Hecke and Lennard Kwakernaak (Leiden University and AMOLF Amsterdam) have published about this latest metamaterial ...
Soft Matter
Jul 3, 2023
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Sexual exploitation of children abroad: the Dutch government calls on its citizens to not look away from "suspicious situations" while turning a blind eye to the root causes of the problem.
Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2023
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Many people were using social media to follow last weekend's march on Moscow by the Wagner mercenaries. And they weren't the only ones: intelligence services were also watching with great interest. What kind of information ...
Social Sciences
Jun 28, 2023
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Fifteen years ago, an alternative technique to look for the elusive Majorana particles was conceived theoretically. But no one carried out the experiment, until now. Physicist Jianfeng Ge and his colleagues from the Allan ...
Superconductivity
Jun 22, 2023
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Police investigations use wiretapped phone recordings as investigative material fairly regularly. But how do they know that the voice on the recording actually belongs to the suspect? Ph.D. student Laura Smorenburg is trying ...
Other
Jun 12, 2023
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In the past 30 years, more than 5,000 planets have been discovered outside our solar system. One common exoplanet is the lava world, a hot super-Earth with oceans of liquid lava. Mantas Zilinskas developed models to simulate ...
Astronomy
May 23, 2023
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We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can the tide still be turned?
Environment
May 17, 2023
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A wide range of plant species is essential to our Earth because of the different materials and foods these plants provide. But plant diversity has decreased drastically in recent decades. Ph.D. candidate Kaixuan Pan explains ...
Plants & Animals
May 16, 2023
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