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How space eruptions happen

How space eruptions happen

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 3

(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.





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Cosmic strings might emit cosmic sparks, answer cosmological questions

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (62) | comments 18

(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 ...


IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole

IceCube building goals exceeded at South Pole

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the 2008-09 Antarctic drilling season concludes, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is on track to be finished as planned in 2011.


More than one nanostring to their bow: Scientists moving closer to 'artificial noses'

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

These days, chemical analysts are expected to track down even single molecules. To do this highly sensitive detective work, nano researchers have developed minute strings that resonate in characteristic fashion. If a molecule ...


Magnetic monopoles detected in a real magnet for the first time

Magnetic monopoles detected in a real magnet for the first time

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (48) | comments 38

Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre Berlin, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, have for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real ...


Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control ...


Pianos, pasta and lollies: the maths of the good life

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

CSIRO mathematician Dr Bob Anderssen knows a thing or two about the good life. He does the maths that makes it good.


Body movements can influence problem solving

Body movements can influence problem solving (w/Videos)

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Swinging their arms helped participants in a new study solve a problem whose solution involved swinging strings, researchers report, demonstrating that the brain can use bodily cues to help understand and ...


Gibbon feet provide model for early human walking

Gibbon feet provide model for early human walking

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created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that early humans could have walked successfully on a 'flexible' flat foot, similar to modern day gibbons.


Floppy-footed gibbons help us understand how early humans may have walked

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created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The human foot is a miracle of evolution. We can keep striding for miles on our well-sprung feet. There is nothing else like them, not even amongst our closest living relatives. According to Evie Vereecke, from the University ...


Researchers' 'self-correcting' gates advance quantum computing

'Self-correcting' gates advance quantum computing

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth researchers have found a way to develop more robust “quantum gates,” which are the elementary building blocks of quantum circuits. Quantum circuits, someday, will be used to ...



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