Igor Zolnerkevic

topological insulating materials

Superficial magic

Brazilians begin investigating a new promising material

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Solar system

Why Uranus spins sideways

Crashing into large objects has tilted the rotation axis by 98°

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Extreme events

A compass for tsunamis

Earth’s magnetic field may warn of arrival of giant waves

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Fractals

Jagged coastlines

Physicists try to explain why coastlines vary so much

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Physics

Energy from the stars

Brazilians and Europeans seek control of nuclear fusion

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Statistics

The life of words

The evolution of the vocabulary of on-line communities

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Ecology

The limit of the forest

Group identifies signs that precede extinction in the Atlantic rainforest

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Astronomy

The Sun that protects us

Study identifies a type of magnetic bubble that surrounds our Solar System

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Physics

Moving sculptures

Computer simulations explain how the giant dunes on Mars emerge and evolve

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