News tagged with biological systems
Physics rules network dynamics
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the workings of the Web, the brain, or a social network, physics finds universal truths.
Bacteria offer insights into human decision making
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that ...
Echoes of phlogiston in stem cell biology
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Before it was learned that matter burns by taking up oxygen, most chemists sought to explain combustion as the release of a mysterious substance, which they named "phlogiston". Phlogiston theory was a conceptual breakthrough ...
Visual system that detects movement, colours and textures created in Granada
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Mimicking the way in which a retina works is a hard as it sounds. Scientists from Stanford University, in the United States, have spent the past two years working on imitating the way in which information is processed in ...
Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials
Apr 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The speed at which heat moves between two materials touching each other is a potent indicator of how strongly they are bonded to each other, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer ...
