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Exciton Een exciton is een gebonden toestand van een elektron en een elektronengat, die elkaar aantrekken door middel van de elektromagnetische kracht. Het is een neutraal geladen quasideeltje dat voorkomt… Read more »

Dozens of yellow-headed blackbirds mysteriously drop dead in Mexico Social media sleuths are trying to solve the mystery of why dozens of birds crashed to their deaths in the Mexican state of… Read more »

Space repairs in 360° | Cosmic Kiss   https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2022/02/Space_repairs_in_360_Cosmic_Kiss?fbclid=IwAR2jgDuCIzT7g8-PzFM2Hr4NiThiQeeAlelUqiDHy9wFmxQSODAMkmgTB1w The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Batura Glacier – one of the largest and longest glaciers in the world, outside… Read more »

Although we like to think that the Universe is symmetric, reflecting something as simple as a left hand in a mirror reveals a fundamental asymmetry: the mirror image of your… Read more »

What would happen if you traveled in a straight line forever? 🙂 Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here’s what… Read more »

In June 1945, the 27-year-old physicist Richard Feynman lost his wife, Arline Feynman, to tuberculosis. Only 25 years old, she was Richard’s high-school sweetheart. And yet she was much more. As Lawrence Krauss writes in 2012… Read more »

Published: 15 August 2012 Ralph A. Alpher, Robert C. Herman, and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Victor S. Alpher Physics in Perspective volume 14, pages300–334 (2012)Cite this article Abstract Much… Read more »

Last picture of Nikola Tesla, 1943. Tesla died alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel on 7 January 1943   Mother, the very thought of you makes me… Read more »

  String Theory or Loop Quantum Gravity? David Gross vs Carlo Rovelli String theory has dominated discussions at the frontiers of physics for decades, especially in the attempts to build… Read more »

Arnoud Boot, hoogleraar in ondernemingsfinanciering en financiële markten, in gesprek met Paul van Liempt over Eurobonds, de acute financiële problemen van de EU en de stabiliteit van de EU. Volgens… Read more »