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When Writing Becomes Calligraphy: An Alternative History of Chinese Script Based on Medieval Inscribed Landscapes and their Modern Reception
While calligraphy has long been central in Chinese culture—where it is synonymous with national identity, in a powerful combination of orthodoxy and orthography —, this project voices a marginalised e
What is the impact of the ocean fine scales on phytoplankton diversity?
The fine scales (1-100 km, days to weeks) largely control the fate of surface tracers in the ocean. Model results show that this regime also drive phytoplankton community structure and diversity. Howe
What is a cell type?
Classifications are fundamental conceptual tools for the systematization of scientific knowledge. Some classification systems, such as the periodic table of elements, are thought to reflect the struct
What distinguishes the imagination of personal future events from imaginary scenarios?
During a typical day, people experience future-oriented thoughts approximately every 16 minutes. These thoughts enable people to anticipate or plan events that may occur in the future, or simply to me
West African WAter Tower Eco-agrosystems Resiliences
The Fouta Djallon (FD) range is often defined as the West African natural water tower, since all the main rivers originate in this massif. However, it is constituted of non porous rocks. The FD is ove
Webs of Interaction Networks: feedbacks between the spatial connectivity and the functioning of food webs
Land-use changes, habitat destruction and habitat fragmentation are among the most important drivers of the current biodiversity crisis. While species-centred approaches have helped develop potential
Wearable Gas SENSors based on functionalized transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets for the detection of NOx and CO
SENS-CO targets to develop new wearable gas sensors based on functionalized 2D materials such as MoS2 and MXenes and their heterostructures (MoS2/MXene) that will be able to detect sub-ppm-level NO2,
Wavelength-tunable nanowire-based quantum light source
A semiconductor quantum dot (QD) inserted in a nanowire (NW) is an ideal platform for quantum light sources emitting single photons or entangled photon pairs with high brightness. Two major bottlenec
Waveguiding by disorder induced topological metamaterials
The possibility of architecturing composite materials to obtain new mechanical properties has lead to the field of metamaterials, which opened numerous research directions and routes for real life app
Wave turbulence and nonlinear random caustics in disordered optical systems
Wave turbulence dominates the physical behaviour of a large variety of scenarios and lies at the foundation of our understanding of systems ranging from small scales such as optical waves in photon fl
