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Using magic to learn about maths

Using magic to learn about maths

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- An academic from Queen Mary, University of London has launched a series of videos featuring magic tricks that are conjured from a mathematical perspective.





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Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Technology / Engineering

created 2 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...


Rethinking artificial intelligence

Rethinking artificial intelligence: Researchers hope to produce 'co-processors' for the human mind

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 3 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 4

The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for ...


Single-atom transistor discovered

Scientists build 'single-atom transistor'

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (27) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, ...


Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind

Embodied Cognition: Using Movement to Understand the Mind

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology professors look at movement to study communication and cognition.


Study helps advance heart-related research

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Using a new mathematical model of heart cells, University of Iowa investigators have shown how activation of a critical enzyme, calmodulin kinase II (CaM kinase), disrupts the electrical activity of heart cells.


United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak (AP)

United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 16

(AP) -- The United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate ...


Study links real-time data to flu vaccine strategies

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adaptive vaccination strategies, based on age patterns of hospitalizations and deaths monitored in real-time during the early stages of a pandemic, outperform seasonal influenza vaccination allocation strategies, according ...


Small companies add value by sharing commercial information

Technology / Software

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Small companies prepared to share commercially sensitive information can add value and develop new services for their customers, using a distributed track-and-trace software solution.


CSIRO researchers create giant waves

CSIRO researchers create giant waves -- virtually

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientists have created 'rogue waves' more than 20 metres high and smashed them into virtual oil and gas production platforms to compare different mooring designs.


A greener way to get electricity from natural gas

A greener way to get electricity from natural gas

Technology / Energy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (14) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at costs comparable to or less than ...



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