sabato 30 gennaio 2021

# gst: movers and shaker, the dynamics of granular matter

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 << Granular materials are disordered systems often found in a far-from-equilibrium state. >>   << You can think of it lik...
venerdì 29 gennaio 2021

# gst: expanding 'bubbles' of distortion in the nano lattice of a material, a glimpse of polarons

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 << Polarons are fleeting distortions in a material's atomic lattice that form around a moving electron in a few trillionths of a ...
mercoledì 27 gennaio 2021

# gst: apropos of 'strange' transitions to self-assemble into an egg; the coordinated elastic behavior to swirl in a vortex (D. melanogaster)

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 << At the end of its first week of development, a striking change occurs in a fruit-fly egg cell. The cell’s internal fluid motion tr...
lunedì 25 gennaio 2021

# gst: apropos of the structure of natural codes, a RNA folding knot (origami-style) dance

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  << Every second, a myriad of shapeless strands of RNA fold, origami-style, into intricate structures inside living cells. Now, for t...
lunedì 4 gennaio 2021

# gst: apropos of waves perturbed by weak turbulences

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<< Wave phenomena are ubiquitous at all scales throughout the Universe, and where there are waves, there’s the potential for wave turb...
sabato 2 gennaio 2021

# gst: the strong impact on nanosheets by the weak van der Waals force

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<< Van der Waals is a weak force that allows neutral molecules to attract one another through randomly fluctuating dipoles, depending ...
mercoledì 30 dicembre 2020

# behav: chaotic (jazz) music generated by songbirds during non-mating seasons for opioid reward

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<< when songbirds sing during non-mating seasons, it's because singing releases an opioid naturally produced in their brain —that&...