Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields. At the heart of the superconducting quantum interference device are two atomically thin layers of graphene, which the researchers combined with boron nitride. Instruments like this one have applications in areas such as medicine, besides being used to research new materials.
To measure very small magnetic fields, researchers often use superconducting quantum interference devices, or SQUIDs. In medicine, their uses include monitoring brain or heart activity, for example, while in the earth sciences researchers use SQUIDs to characterize the composition of rocks or detect groundwater flows. The devices also have a broad range of uses in other applied fields and basic research.
The team led by Professor Christian Schönenberger of the University of Basel’s Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute has now succeeded in creating one of the smallest SQUIDs ever built. The researchers described their achievement in the scientific journal Nano Letters.
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Seriously, that show is great, if you like horror / thriller / drama and a lot of suspense. I expected something like “Takeshi’s Castle” mixed with “SAW”, but it was more like “Seven”. Yes, there is violence, but most of the show deals with the characters and their stories and personal development. It’s not just some dumb gory game show like the media might make you think. And it’s got awesome production design and music, definitely worth watching. AND it will make you cry ( people who have already watched it know which episode I’m talking about… I only say “Gganbu” ).
For most cephalopods, sex is a once in a lifetime event.
Often the male initiates with a courtship display meant to woo the female. If successful, he then slips a specialized arm called the hectocotylus into the mantle of the female and deposits the sperm.
The story of how the name hectocotylus came to be is a tale of mistaken identity. In 1829, the famous naturalist George Cuvier identified an odd “organism” within the mantle of a female paper nautilus (which, to make matters even more confusing is, in fact, an octopus) and thought it was a new parasitic worm which he called the hectocotylus. Turns out, it was actually a male cephalopod arm, but the name stuck. In the paper nautilus, the hectocotylus detaches completely during sex and remains inside the female—this is what Cuvier mistook as a worm.
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