Romancing the Phantom Particle
The international Xenon project is the most sensitive experiment in the world devoted to hunting WIMPs. Buried under the Italian Gran Sasso
The Dance Performance of Fish schools
Thanks to the development of new tracking techniques and behavioural data analysis, scientists have managed to reconstruct and model the soc
Artificial Neurones Go Nanometric
A team of scientists has developed an artificial nanoneuron that mimics the behaviour of a brain neuron. Trained to recognise numbers spoken
“There’s Nothing Like an Observation that Confirms Einstein’s Ideas!”
Barry Barish played a key role in detecting gravitational waves, mobilising the scientific community in the international Ligo project, whic
The Resistance of Insulators
Some materials are insulators on the inside, but conductors at the extremities. These surprising properties are due to the topological chara
The Art of Making Clouds
It is no longer enough to use change in state to explain cloud formation. The role of chemical and biological substances must now be...
