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Making waves: Mathematicians crack quantum chaos conjecture

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (69) | comments 3

The American Institute of Mathematics announces that Soundararajan and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version of the quantum unique ergodicity conjecture. Their work, based in the pure mathematics area of number ...





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Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table, physicists find

Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table, physicists find

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 14, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 0

A game of billiards may never get smaller than this. Physicists at UC Riverside have demonstrated that graphene – a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings – can act as an atomic-scale ...


New Technique Makes Tissues Transparent

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 0

If humans had see-through skin like a jellyfish, spotting disease like cancer would be a snap: Just look, and see a tumor form or grow.


No texting at dinner! Parenting in the digital era (AP)

No texting at dinner! Parenting in the digital era

Technology / Other

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Holly Kopczynski always prided herself on raising her kids the right way, teaching them etiquette basics like saying "please" and "thank you." Then it happened.


Physicists find a new state of matter in a 'transistor'

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (131) | comments 21

McGill University researchers have discovered a new state of matter, a quasi-three- dimensional electron crystal, in a material very much like those used in the fabrication of modern transistors. This discovery could have ...


Research Paper Illuminates How Light Pushes Atoms

Research Paper Illuminates How Light Pushes Atoms

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 08, 2006 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 0

A research paper to be published in the 18 August edition of the journal Physical Review Letters reveals a new effect in the fundamental way that laser light interacts with atoms.


Works of mathematical power, beauty yield Clay Research Prize

Works of mathematical power, beauty yield Clay Research Prize

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 06, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (29) | comments 0

An institute that promotes the “beauty, power and universality” of mathematical thought has awarded the Clay Research Prize to Alex Eskin, Professor in Mathematics at the University of Chicago.


Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality: Science Fiction or Reality? (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer graphics have come a long way since the birth of Atari Games over 30 years ago. Today, computer graphics seem very real and some day researchers will pull graphics out of your television ...


Pesticides -- easier detection of pollution and impact in rivers

Pesticides -- easier detection of pollution and impact in rivers

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The long-term effects of pesticides on living organisms in rivers and on water quality can now be assessed more easily. Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have developed ...


New Urbanspoon app digs into restaurant reservations

Technology / Software

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Something big is shaking at Urbanspoon, the Seattle company behind a hugely successful iPhone restaurant-finding application.


A new chemical element in the periodic table

Chemistry / Other

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 10

The element 112, discovered at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt, has been officially recognized as a new element by the International Union of Pure and Applied ...



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