A study from the University of Reims (France) published in the journal PLoS ONE reveals that the shape of the glass where champagne is served affects the amount of bubbles it contains and, therefore, how we experience its taste. Specifically, the researchers studied the concentration of carbon dioxide (responsible for the formation of bubbles) and ethanol.
Physicists from the University of Frankfurt (Germany) have concluded that the ability of the human brain to process and record information is the main limiting factor in the growth of the amount of data that is stored on the Internet, and not the cost of the data production, nor hardware.
In addition to creating folding mobile phones and lighter aircraft, graphene could be used to distill alcohol. It is the new utility that a team of scientists from the University of Manchester have found in this revolutionary material - the thinnest and, at the same time, the strongest and most ductile in the world.
An international team has used the world's most powerful X-ray laser, located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US, to create "hot dense matter" at two million degrees from aluminum foil. The scientific feat will help to better understand the material at the heart of stars and giant planets.
Why is the universe magnetized? This is a question that scientists have been asking for decades. Now an international team of researchers has found the answer, their findings published in the January 26 issue of the journal Nature.
Is an electron indestructible? Can it be cut in half? With the help of various supercomputers, an international team of physicists has simulated the splitting of an electron through a "virtual crystal" which, under extremely low temperatures in the computer model, becomes a quantum fluid. By placing a virtual particle with the fundamental charge of an electron in the simulated quantum fluid, the particle was fractured into two parts, each of which contained half the negative charge of the original electron.
A team of chemists from the University of Utah (USA) has just shown that water does not freeze completely until it reaches -13ºC and not at 0ºC as we usually think. It is at this extremely low temperature that water not only cools but its molecular structure changes and acquires tetrahedral forms, in which each water molecule joins four others, forming ice.
New tests carried out at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory by the OPERA collaboration with a neutrino beam established by CERN confirm previous results on the measurement of neutrino velocity. The new evidence appears to exclude a portion of potential systemic effects that could have affected the original measure.
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.
