Tag: ocean
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Essence over Form…
What clues does our memory use to connect a current situation to a situation from the past? A study conducted by researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, - working in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris University in France - demonstrated that similarities in structure and essence (the heart of a situation) guide our…
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Droplets carrying an ocean…
Self-cleaning surfaces and laboratories on a chip become even more efficient if we are able to control individual droplets. University of Groningen professor Patrick Onck, together with colleagues from Eindhoven University of Technology, have shown that this is possible by using a technique called mechanowetting. "We have come up with a way of transporting droplets…
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Ocean. Rogue waves. Darkness.
Rogue waves are extremely high ocean waves that exceed the significant wave height by more than a factor of 2. Extreme waves are also very rare; less than one in 100,000 waves exceeds the rogue wave criterion. While their existence was long disputed throughout the 1990s, thousands of rogue waves have been recorded on oil…
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Face. DNA. Appearances. Deep ocean.
Can the DNA predict a face? Though appearance-prediction technology shows promise, it’s still in its infancy. [1] At some point it will surely succeed in showing some results. But it will never be 100% accurate. We look at faces. Because appearance means everything in a world of appearances. But appearance is affected by the environment.…
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Melatonin. Sleep. An ancient secret long forgotten...
As much as we may try to deny it, Earth’s cycle of day and night rules our lives. When the sun sets, the encroaching darkness sets off a chain of molecular events spreading from our eyes to our pineal gland, which oozes a hormone called melatonin into the brain. When the melatonin latches onto neurons,…
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