Search results for fundamental principles:
What if there is only one universe?
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lee Smolin, author of the bestselling science book The Trouble with Physics and a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, ...
A Critique of Shortsighted Anthropic Principles
May 16, 2008 |
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Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of "Anthropic Principles" that strive to explain why ...
U.S., Canada, begin trauma experiments
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 27, 2007 |
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The U.S. government is undertaking a set of controversial studies that allows some medical experiments without getting patients' permission.
The Lightness of Electrons in a Twisting Metal Crystal
Jul 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Princeton University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center has observed electrons moving through a crystal of bismuth metal behaving like light.
Wildebeest or malaria parasite -- same rules determine number of offspring
Biology /
Jan 15, 2008 |
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Whether you are dealing with the number of wildebeest on the Serengeti or the number of malaria parasites in the human body, new research shows the same ecological framework determines breeding numbers and population size.
Computing in the quantum dimension
Jun 12, 2009 |
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A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same time, it is helping to pave the way to a quantum ...
Capillary formation’s mechanical determinants: One growth factor can have many effects
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers have established a link between the growth of blood vessels and the mechanical stresses caused by the environment within which the vessels grow, a new understanding that ...
Bananas Gone Bad Glow Blue in UV-Light
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nicholas Turro of Columbia University, Bernhard Krautler of the University of Innsbruck, Austria and their colleagues have found that, as chlorophyll ages and begins to disintegrate in banana ...
Back to basics: Scientists discover a fundamental mechanism for cell organization (w/Video)
May 21, 2009 |
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Scientists have discovered that cells use a very simple phase transition -- similar to water vapor condensing into dew -- to assemble and localize subcellular structures that are involved in formation of the embryo.
Caltech researchers awarded $10M for molecular programming project
Aug 18, 2008 |
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The National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program has awarded $10 million to the Molecular Programming Project, a collaborative effort by researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University ...
A map of the worm: First detailed anatomical atlas of C. elegans for use in the lab
Biology /
Feb 16, 2008 |
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To meet the demands of biologists who work with the model worm C. elegans in the laboratory, a new anatomical atlas has just been published. It is the most detailed and comprehensive atlas of C. elegans in print to date ...
Scientists generate the most precise map of genetic recombination ever
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Jul 10, 2008 |
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Genetic recombination, the process by which sexually reproducing organisms shuffle their genetic material when producing germ cells, leads to offspring with a new genetic make-up and influences the course of evolution.
Rethinking the Genetic Theory of Inheritance
Jan 18, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have detected evidence that DNA may not be the only carrier of heritable information; a secondary molecular mechanism called epigenetics may also account for ...
Scientists generate the most precise map of genetic recombination ever
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Jul 10, 2008 |
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Genetic recombination, the process by which sexually reproducing organisms shuffle their genetic material when producing germ cells, leads to offspring with a new genetic make-up and influences the course of evolution.
The Building Blocks of Life
Biology /
Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever wonder where all that food your teenager devoured was going? Not only does the food go into the teen's daily activities--running, doing homework, breathing and playing video games, but ...
