by Iliyah | Apr 4, 2019 | Biology, Earth and Environment, Engineering and Tech, Health and Medicine, Physical Science, Social Sciences, STEM Education
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany. To this end, it grants more than 700 research fellowships and research awards annually. These allow researchers from all over...
by Iliyah | Mar 28, 2019 | Physical Science
Atomic clocks have long been the most accurate timekeeping devices known to physics, but thanks to research carried out in recent years, it looks like their reign could soon be over. As part of the European consortium ‘nuClock’ (nuclock.eu), Dr Peter Thirolf, Dr Lars...
by Iliyah | Feb 6, 2019 | Physical Science
Astronomers have much to learn from the giant clouds of gas and dust that occupy the vast spaces between stars. These conglomerates of dense, cool interstellar matter provide the food needed for star formation in galaxies. Over the past decade, Dr Reinhard Genzel and...
by Iliyah | Jan 25, 2019 | Engineering and Tech, Physical Science, STEM Education
A secure and sustainable energy supply for the future depends upon communities and industries working together. To facilitate this, a skilled STEM workforce is needed. To that end, Dr Pankaj Sharma a courtesy professor at Purdue University and his colleagues have...
by Iliyah | Jan 24, 2019 | Engineering and Tech, Physical Science, STEM Education
The survival of humanity relies upon the sustainable use of natural systems that provide food, energy, and water. However, the growth in the world’s population and human activities that generate pollution are posing serious sustainability challenges to these systems....
by Iliyah | Jan 23, 2019 | Earth and Environment, Physical Science
The behaviours of physical systems are often decided by complex webs of connections between properties, where a small change in just one variable could cause changes in every other one. Dr Joe Borovsky at the Space Science Institute of Boulder, Colorado, and his...
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