News tagged with fractal properties

Spacetime May Have Fractal Properties on a Quantum Scale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Usually, we think of spacetime as being four-dimensional, with three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. However, this Euclidean perspective is just one of many possible multi-dimensional ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

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Searching for fractals may help cancer cell testing

Scientists have long known that healthy cells looked and behaved differently from cancer cells. For instance, the nuclei of healthy cells -- the inner part of the cells where the chromosomes are stored -- ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Evolution of sport performances follows a physiological law

Geoffroy Berthelot and Stephane Len, both researchers at the IRMES (Institut de Recherche bioMédicale et d'Epidemiologie du Sport at INSEP, Paris, France), have published their findings in Age, the official journal of the ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Forecast calls for nanoflowers to help return eyesight

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Oregon researcher Richard Taylor is on a quest to grow flowers that will help people who've lost their sight, such as those suffering from macular degeneration, to see again.

Physics / General Physics

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists develop potent packing process

New York University physicists have developed a method for packing microscopic spheres that could lead to improvements in commercial products ranging from pharmaceutical lotions to ice cream. Their work, which relies on an ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How a hike led to a math 'Eureka!'

Where do “eureka” moments come from? Emory mathematician Ken Ono found his on a hiking trail in north Georgia.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Same rules apply to some experimental systems regardless of scale

(PhysOrg.com) -- New experiments show that common scientific rules can apply to significantly different phenomena operating on vastly different scales.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New math theories reveal the nature of numbers

For centuries, some of the greatest names in math have tried to make sense of partition numbers, the basis for adding and counting. Many mathematicians added major pieces to the puzzle, but all of them fell ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (66) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover fractal pattern in Scotch tape

(PhysOrg.com) -- Clear cellophane tape – which can be found in almost every home in the industrialized world – may seem quite ordinary, but recent research has shown otherwise. In 2008, scientists ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 23 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists find fractal boundaries in crystals

Blacksmiths make horseshoes by heating, beating and bending iron, but what's happening to the metal's individual atoms during such a process? Cornell researchers, using computational modeling, are providing ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Quantum fractals at the border of magnetism

U.S., German and Austrian physicists studying the perplexing class of materials that includes high-temperature superconductors are reporting this week the unexpected discovery of a simple "scaling" behavior in the electronic ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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