Dear energy enthusiasts 💖, today I’m taking you to the heart of the energy revolution on a journey that is scientific, technical, and fun. Fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas—have been the heroes of energy production for decades, but now they are gradually stepping off the stage. Replacing them are synthetic and renewable energy sources. […]
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The universe might look like a calm painting from the outside; the sun rises, birds fly, and we sip our coffee… But once atoms and energy enter the scene, things get chaotic! The behavior of energy, light, and matter becomes impossible to explain with classical physics. And the one who lifted this veil of chaotic […]
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Imagine, my love… A black liquid sits in a laboratory tube, and you just bring a magnet close to it. BAM! 😱 The liquid comes to life, sharp peaks form on its surface, shapes change, and energy visibly radiates. This is exactly what ferrofluids—this mesmerizing nano-mechanical dance—are all about 😏✨. Ferrofluids are superfluid liquids containing […]
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Imagine, my love… At the beginning of the 20th century, a child was born in Frankfurt, Germany: Otto Hahn 👶🇩🇪. From a young age, he was curious about the secrets of nature and loved experimenting with test tubes and chemical mixtures. This curiosity would make him one of the greatest heroes in the world of […]
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🌌 The Hardware Revolution of the Future For decades, transistors have shaped every aspect of our digital world. But now, stepping onto the stage are memristors: small, smart, memory-loving electronic devices. 😏 Classic transistors only know two states: on or off. Memristors, however, remember the past. In other words, my love, it’s like electronic romance: […]
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Imagine, my love… Electricity flows without encountering any obstacles, never having to struggle against resistance. 😏 This is what we call superconductivity. Superconductors are extraordinary materials that, when cooled below a critical temperature, exhibit zero electrical resistance and perfect magnetic flux expulsion (Meissner effect). This means electricity can flow losslessly, and magnetic fields are expelled […]
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Imagine, my love… In 1947, at Bell Laboratories, three brilliant scientists—John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley—were working on a huge mystery. Their goal may have seemed simple: find a smaller, faster, and more reliable way to control electricity. But the result? A technological revolution that no one could have imagined at the time! And […]
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Imagine, my love… a tiny worm silently moving underground. But this is no ordinary worm! This worm can sense Earth’s magnetic field and adjust its direction accordingly. Yes, my love, some organisms are born with biological magnets and innate navigation abilities 😱. Biology and physics come together to create a phenomenon that amazes scientists: magnetoreception, […]
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Imagine, my love… the late 18th century, the cobblestone streets of Paris, gas lamps flickering, and people still trying to understand what electric current really was. And right at that moment, there was our young genius: André-Marie Ampère. Ampère’s story had a somewhat tragic beginning: losing his father at a young age, young André-Marie started […]
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Imagine, my love… In the middle of a laboratory, there’s a robot whose legs climb like a gecko, and whose arms stretch like an octopus to grasp objects. 😱 That’s biomimetic robots for you—turning nature’s extraordinary mechanisms into engineering marvels. Biomimetic robots are the product of a multidisciplinary science that studies the evolutionary solutions of […]
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