The astounding capacity of nature to self-assemble is a fundamental principle that is seen at many different scales, ranging from micro to macromolecular structures. The study of self- assembly continues to be a vibrant area of research, but understanding ...

In recent years, the Icelandic dairy product skyr has been transformed from an everyday staple to a national food heritage. Skyr is high in protein and low in fat, and its nutritional value accounts for its international success. However, the domestic ...

The excitation of molecules by the absorption of photons has wide applicability, for instance in sensitizers and photocatalysts for systems driven by energy carried by light. A key issue is how the energy is then distributed and how the atomic structure ...

The organic-inorganic methylammonium lead iodide (MAPI) perovskite has become a prominent research topic as a low-cost solution for solar cell technol- ogy. However, this material has yet to be commercialized due to its limiting factor of a high ...

Anthropogenic global climate change is causing ice mass loss in all glacierized regions in the world. Iceland provides conditions that make it an efficient laboratory to study the effects of retreating glaciers on magmatic activity, as retreating ...

In October 1975, the Icelandic women’s movement organized a ‘Women’s Day Off’ (WDO), a one-day strike designed to reveal the societal importance of women’s work. In this article, we explore media coverage of the WDO in the Nordic countries. Through an ...

The design of Deep Learning (DL) models is a complex task, involving decisions on the general architecture of the model (e.g., the number of layers of the Neural Network (NN)) and on the optimization algorithms (e.g., the learning rate). These so-called ...

Demographic change, increasing cost of care, and shortage of hospital workers pose challenges in hospital management. As a response, hospitals maintain high utilisation of their existing resources by maximising patient throughput to minimise waiting ...

In our paper presentation, we explore the Nordic Summer University (NSU), an independent and migratory scholarly organisation, as a platform for interaction and cooperation for the new women’s movements and an arena for the development of women’s ...

Using first-principles calculations and atomistic spin simulations, we predict stable isolated skyrmions with a diameter below 10 nm in a monolayer of the two-dimensional van der Waals ferromagnet Fe5⁢GeTe2, a material of significant experimental ...