The Role of Gravity in Connecting Microscopic and Macroscopic World

The Role of Gravity in Connecting Microscopic and Macroscopic World

The laws of physics, as we understand them, can be divided into two realms: classical physics, which describes objects at human size scales or larger, and quantum physics, which describes objects at the atomic scale. These two sets of laws are very different. Classical physics states that an object like a ball has a position and momentum that can both be determined to arbitrary precision. Read more

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The Chemical Midas Touch –  Combining Gold with Natural Products to Create Novel Antimalarial Drugs

The Chemical Midas Touch – Combining Gold with Natural Products to Create Novel Antimalarial Drugs

Malaria is one of the worst scourges ever known to mankind. The deadly disease, which is caused by plasmodium parasites transmitted by the female anopheles mosquito, remains a global public health threat despite concerted efforts to eradicate it. In 2016 alone, it infected 194 million people in Africa and caused 445,000 deaths. Read more

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The evolution of skyrmions in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt multilayers and their topological Hall signature

The evolution of skyrmions in Ir/Fe/Co/Pt multilayers and their topological Hall signature

Magnetic skyrmions are tiny entities, manifesting in magnetic materials, that consist of localized twists in the magnetization direction of the medium. Each skyrmion is highly stable because eliminating it requires untwisting the magnetization direction of the material, just as a knot on a string can only be untied by pulling the rest of the string out of the knot. Read more

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