Phonons are indeed recognized as vibrations of the lattice that transport heat energy in solids. To contemplate on the idea ...

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I am an Associate Professor in the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. I think that creativity – making things and ideas! – is the best thing that humans do. So my research involves producing creative ...

As long as there have been poets, they have been writing war elegies. In this episode, Mark and Seamus discuss responses to the American Civil War (Walt Whitman), both world wars (W.B. Yeats, Wilfred ...