by Markus Deserno | Sep 1, 2020 | Science Vignettes
Warning: this post is a bit wonkish. Math ahead! Controlling the Covid-19 pandemic requires testing and contact tracing, but the usefulness of tests declines if getting results takes too long: a week is no longer unusual, and there have been reports of three week...
by Markus Deserno | Aug 9, 2020 | Own Work
Nematic liquid crystals are soft matter systems in which elongated molecules align and form long-range oriented fields, in 2 or 3 dimensions. They have a long history, many practical applications, and are increasingly recognized for the many roles they play in...
by Markus Deserno | Aug 9, 2020 | Science Vignettes
Gerrymandering describes the practice of engineering the boundary of political districts in such a way as to give one party (almost invariably the one that draws the districts) an advantage in elections. This has often given rise to highly convoluted district...
by Markus Deserno | Jul 30, 2020 | Great Papers
When on March 13 2020 the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Europe exceeded the rest of the world (excluding China) for the first time, the World Health Organization declared Europe as the new epicenter of a worldwide spreading disease it had only declared a...
by Markus Deserno | Jul 21, 2020 | Great Papers
by: Markus Deserno, Muhammed Ergüder, Samuel Foley, Amirali Hossein, and Malavika Varma Living cells and many of their internal organelles are bounded by a membrane composed predominantly of lipids. These are molecules with a water-soluble head region and a...
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