DNA Revelations: “Extinct” Fish Is Alive and Well!
The houting fish, once thought extinct, is still thriving, as revealed by DNA comparisons with the European whitefish by researchers from the University of Amsterdam…
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Opinion: Modern Chemistry Is Quite Literally Rubbish
In a comment in Nature Reviews Chemistry, Ph.D. student Hannah Flerlage and associate professor Chris Slootweg of the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for…
Chemistry Breakthrough: Scientists Take Photoclick Chemistry to the Next Level
Through a collaborative effort involving the Universities of Groningen and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, along with Italy’s European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, scientists have significantly…
Timing Tragedy: Researchers Unveil When Suicidal Thoughts Peak
New research has identified the month during which individuals experience the most intense suicidal thoughts, and that these occur several months prior to the surge…
A Magical Combination – Scientists Develop a New Class of Materials
Would you rather run into a brick wall or into a mattress? The majority of people would find this decision straightforward. The hardness of a…
Unexpected Findings – Graphene Grows, and We Can See It
Using ‘patchy particles’ as a model for graphene’s atomic structure, researchers have gained novel insights into the formation and evolution of defects in two-dimensional materials….
Bizarre Breakthrough – Scientists Discover Unusual “Floppy” Crystals
When it comes to crystals, we tend to imagine solid, rigid structures with distinct, repeating patterns, such as ice, salt, and quartz. However, new research…
How To Overcome Noise in Quantum Computations – A New Formula
Ludovico Lami of QuSoft and the University of Amsterdam and Mark M. Wilde of Cornell have achieved a major breakthrough in the field of quantum…
Scientists Prove That There Is No “Second Law of Entanglement”
The power of the second law The second law of thermodynamics is widely considered one of the most universally true physical laws. It dictates that…
Researchers Discover Unusual Compound in Famous 17th-Century Painting
Scientists from the Rijksmuseum, CNRS, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Antwerp made a rare discovery of lead…
Scientists Detect a Neighboring Galaxy Filled With Dark Matter
Researchers have used gamma rays to detect a small neighboring galaxy. According to a new study recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy, an international…
Surprising Behavior: Sponges “Sneeze” To Dispose of Waste, Spewing Mucus Into the Sea
Sponges are among the oldest creatures on Earth and play an essential role in many underwater ecosystems. New research finds that sponges ‘sneeze’ to clear…
A New Method To Unleash Cancer-Killing T-Cells
Researchers discover a new mechanism for activating cancer-killing T cells Researchers have made significant progress in the discovery and administration of cancer immunotherapies, which employ…
Eternal Matter Waves: Physicists Build Atom Laser That Can Stay On Forever
These days, imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficult. Lasers are used in printers, CD players, measuring devices, pointers, and so on. What makes…
Researchers Surprised by Unusually Fast Beaked Whale’s Deep-Sea Hunting Strategy
An international team of biologists has successfully used biologgers to reveal insights into the lifestyle and hunting behavior of the little-known species Sowerby’s beaked whale….
A New Method for Quantum Computing in Trapped Ions
Physicists from the University of Amsterdam have proposed a new architecture for a scalable quantum computer. Making use of the collective motion of the constituent…
New Physics Breakthrough in Field of Topological Matter
Sometimes, the inside of a material can determine what happens on the outside. A team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam has devised a…
Researchers Explain the Formation of Trappist-1 and Other Compact Systems
(Article translated to English) Astronomers from the University of Amsterdam have developed a model to explain the formation of planetary system Trappist-1 and other compact…