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Spotting evidence of directed percolation

Spotting evidence of directed percolation

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of physicists has, for the first time, seen convincing experimental evidence for directed percolation, a phenomenon that turns up in computer models of the ways diseases spread through a population ...


Researchers look at water-energy impacts of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created 3 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate projections for the next 50 to 100 years forecast increasingly frequent severe droughts and heat waves across the American Southwest, sinking available water levels even as rising mercury drives up ...


Population movement can be critical factor in dengue's spread

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human movement is a key factor of dengue virus inflow in Rio de Janeiro, according to results from researchers based at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil. The results, based on data from a severe epidemic in ...


A mechanical model of vocalization

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When people speak, sing, or shout, they produce sound by pushing air over their vocal folds -- bits of muscle and tissue that manipulate the air flow and vibrate within it. When someone has polyps or some other problem with ...


There's a speed limit to the pace of evolution, biologists say

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a theoretical model that informs the understanding of evolution and determines how quickly an organism will evolve using a catalogue of "evolutionary speed limits." ...


Overweight children may develop back pain and spinal abnormalities

Medicine & Health / Health

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Being overweight as a child could lead to early degeneration in the spine, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).


Study shows dream-enacting behavior is common in healthy young adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A study in the Dec.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that dream-enacting behaviors are common in healthy young adults, and the prevalence of specific behaviors differs between men and women.


Loneliness can be contagious

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.



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