At the time it was absolutely impossible to see past atoms with sufficient resolution. German physicists Maximilian Haider, Harald Rose and Knut Urban managed to "exponentially increase the resolving power of the electron microscope by developing an electronic optics that has represented a breakthrough offering subatomic precision," explains the jury's ruling. For this reason, they have just won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category in its sixth edition.
Crystallography, according to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy is the "description of the forms that bodies take when crystallizing". However, it is much more than that. It is a fundamental science in chemistry, physics, biology, mineralogy, and so on. In fact, due to its importance, UNESCO has just named 2014 as the International Year of Crystallography.
Improvements in technical equipment and scientific knowledge mean that we can increasingly measure everything around us with more precision. And not only that, because according to the data announced at the last annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, an international group of researchers has managed to measure with a precision of 1% the distance to galaxies located more than 6,000 million light years from the Land. In other words, with unprecedented precision.
'In theory they should exist in the universe, but no one had been able to find one. However, now a team of Spanish researchers has located the first binary system formed by a black hole and a 'spinning top' star, as has just been published in the scientific journal Nature.
One of the fathers of Artificial Intelligence, Marvin Minsky, has just won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge award in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Thanks to his research in this field, the functions of computers, the ways of interacting with technology and the way of integrating them into our daily lives have been expanded.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has been awarded in its sixth edition to Christopher Field, co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that deals with Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability , for discovering the importance of ecosystems and their proper management as powerful tools in the fight against climate change. Thanks to the work of this scientist, the effect of deforestation, agriculture and, in general, alterations in plant cover, on the global climate has been quantified. These discoveries, in the long run, have also made it possible to predict the impact of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
