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09/10/2025

Have you read 2025 literature laureate László Krasznahorkai’s novel ‘Sátántangó’?

Krasznahorkai himself was born in 1954 in the small town of Gyula in southeast Hungary, near the Romanian border. A similar remote rural area is the scene of Krasznahorkai’s first novel ‘Sátántangó’, published in 1985 (‘Satantango’, 2012), which was a literary sensation in Hungary and the author’s breakthrough work. The novel portrays, in powerfully suggestive terms, a destitute group of residents on an abandoned collective farm in the Hungarian countryside just before the fall of communism. Silence and anticipation reign, until the charismatic Irimiás and his crony Petrina, who were believed by all to be dead, suddenly appear on the scene. To the waiting residents, they seem as messengers either of hope or of the last judgement.

The satanic element referred to in the title of the book is present in their slave morality and in the pretences of the trickster Irimiás which, effective as they are deceitful, leave almost all of them tied up in knots.

Everyone in the novel is waiting for a miracle to happen, a hope that is from the very outset punctured by the book’s introductory Kafka motto: ‘In that case, I’ll miss the thing by waiting for it.’

The novel was made into a highly original 1994 film in collaboration with the director Béla Tarr.

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08/10/2025

Laureații sunt Susumu Kitagawa de la Universitatea Kyoto din Japonia, Richard Robson de la Universitatea din Melbourne din Australia și Omar M. Yaghi de la Universitatea din California, Berkeley.

07/10/2025

07/10/2025

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

This year’s physics laureates’ experiments on a chip revealed quantum physics in action.

A major question in physics is the maximum size of a system that can demonstrate quantum mechanical effects. The 2025 physics laureates conducted experiments with an electrical circuit in which they demonstrated both quantum mechanical tunnelling and quantised energy levels in a system big enough to be held in the hand.

Quantum mechanics allows a particle to move straight through a barrier, using a process called tunnelling. As soon as large numbers of particles are involved, quantum mechanical effects usually become insignificant. The laureates’ experiments demonstrated that quantum mechanical properties can be made concrete on a macroscopic scale.

In 1984 and 1985, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis conducted a series of experiments with an electronic circuit built of superconductors, components that can conduct a current with no electrical resistance. In the circuit, the superconducting components were separated by a thin layer of non-conductive material, a setup known as a Josephson junction. By refining and measuring all the various properties of their circuit, they were able to control and explore the phenomena that arose when they passed a current through it. Together, the charged particles moving through the superconductor comprised a system that behaved as if they were a single particle that filled the entire circuit.

This macroscopic particle-like system is initially in a state in which current flows without any voltage. The system is trapped in this state, as if behind a barrier that it cannot cross. In the experiment the system shows its quantum character by managing to escape the zero-voltage state through tunnelling. The system’s changed state is detected through the appearance of a voltage.

The laureates could also demonstrate that the system behaves in the manner predicted by quantum mechanics – it is quantised, meaning that it only absorbs or emits specific amounts of energy.

The transistors in computer microchips are one example of the established quantum technology that surrounds us. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has provided opportunities for developing the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors.

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07/10/2025

Cercetătorii Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell și Shimon Sakaguchi au fost distinși cu Premiul Nobel pentru Fiziologie sau Medicină 2025, pentru contribuțiile lor esențiale în înțelegerea modului în care organismul își reglează sistemul imunitar pentru a preveni autoatacurile.

https://rohealthreview.ro/apaa-premiul-nobel-pentru-medicina-2025-acordat-pentru-descoperirea-mecanismului-care-previne-bolile-autoimune/

07/10/2025

07/10/2025

05/10/2025

Ieri s-au împlinit 1️⃣3️⃣0️⃣ de ani de la nașterea lui Serghei Esenin (1895-1925), unul dintre cei mai importanți poeți ruși. A debutat cu poezie în 1915, cu volumul „Radunița”. În anul următor, publica „Slujbă pentru morți”.

În copilărie, Esenin a fost abandonat de părinți și crescut de bunici. A început să scrie poezii la numai 9 ani. A fost un copil-minune al literaturii universale. La început, Esenin a scris poezii inspirate din folclorul rus și a devenit un apropiat al marilor poeți ruși. S-a înrolat în armată, iar după doi ani și-a înființat propria editură.

În cei 30 de ani, a fost căsătorit de 5 ori. Iuri Esenin, copilul născut din prima relație, a fost arestat și a murit în 1937, într-un lagăr de muncă forțată din Gulag. Căsătoria cu dansatoarea Isadora Duncan, o femeie cu 17 ani mai vârstă, a fost tumultoasă. Esenin a distrus camere de hotel și a provocat numeroase scandaluri în restaurante, fapte care au ajuns rapid în presa internațională. Relația lui cu Galina a sfârșit tragic: la un an după moartea lui, ea s-a sinucis la mormântul scriitorului.

Ultimii doi ani din viață au fost marcați de rătăciri constante. În primăvara anului 1925, Esenin se căsătorește cu o nepoată a lui Lev Tolstoi. Cu două zile înainte de a fi externat din spitalul în care a fost încadrat, Esenin s-a sinucis în cel mai crud mod. Anul acesta se vor împlini 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ de ani de la moartea scriitorului.
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05/10/2025

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