News tagged with elastic strings
How space eruptions happen
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians at the University of St Andrews have made a discovery which could lead to a better understanding of why huge eruptions occur in space.
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Researchers transfer the concept of an optical invisibility cloak to sound waves
Progress of metamaterials in nanotechnologies has made the invisibility cloak, a subject of mythology and science fiction, become reality: Light waves can be guided around an object to be hidden, in such a way that this object ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Polymer characterization 'tweezers' turn Nobel theory into benchtop tool
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new and highly efficient way to characterize the structure of polymers at the nanoscale – effectively designing a routine analytical tool that could be used by industries ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Physicists control chemical reactions mechanically
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA physicists have taken a significant step in controlling chemical reactions mechanically, an important advance in nanotechnology, UCLA physics professor Giovanni Zocchi and colleagues report.
Sep 17, 2010 |
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NanoEngineers Print and Test Chemical Sensors on Underwear (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemical sensors printed directly on elastic underwear waistbands retained their sensing abilities even after engineers stretched, folded and pulled at the chemical-sensing printable electrodes ...
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Structure of inner-ear protein is key to both hearing and inherited deafness (w/ Video)
Rising from the top surface of each of the specialized receptor cells in our inner ears is a bundle of sensory cilia that responds to the movement of sound. As sensitive as they are fragile, these cilia can move to wisps ...
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Apr 17, 2010 |
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Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma
If you keep twisting a straight elastic string, at some moment it starts kinking in a wild way. Something similar occurs when one increases the electrical current flowing in a magnetized plasma doughnut: it ...
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Cosmic strings might emit cosmic sparks, answer cosmological questions
(PhysOrg.com) -- For astronomers, understanding what happened in the early moments of the universe could answer many questions in physics and astronomy. One possible player in the early universe is cosmic strings, which arise ...
Oct 09, 2008 |
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Pianos, pasta and lollies: the maths of the good life
CSIRO mathematician Dr Bob Anderssen knows a thing or two about the good life. He does the maths that makes it good.
May 14, 2008 |
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Researchers Uncover Physics of Coiling Ropes
When a mountain climber drops a rope, it often forms a series of coils on the ground. Not only thick ropes, but also sewing thread and even cooked spaghetti behave in a similar way. Recently, scientists have ...
Oct 23, 2007 |
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Promising new metamaterial could transform ultrasound imaging
Using the same principles that help create a guitar's complex tones, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new material that holds promise for revolutionizing the field of ultrasound imaging.
Jun 01, 2006 |
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