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Scientists IDs genesis of animal behavior patterns

Scientists IDs genesis of animal behavior patterns

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, MIT engineers and colleagues have observed the initiation of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of animals — in this case, fish.





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When the neighbor's noise makes its way through the walls

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Manufacturers of partition walls will possibly have to think further ahead in future than they have up to now: Christoph Kling shows in his dissertation at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany) that the repercussion ...


New physics theory prize names first recipient

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pioneering theorist and Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson has been named the first recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. Anderson will receive a $10,000 honorarium ...


Research brings quantum computing closer to reality

Physicists Bring Quantum Computing Closer to Reality

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (42) | comments 3

Researchers at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Microsoft Station Q have made significant advancements in understanding a fundamental problem ...


Researchers discover new class of compounds with novel chemistry

Chemistry /

created Jan 19, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Researchers have discovered a new class of aluminum-hydrogen complexes that exhibits unique chemistry and may one day be used as basic building blocks to create materials for use in alternative forms of energy and high energetic ...


The evolution of gene regulation: How microbial neighbors settle differences

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Supply and demand could be a governing principle even at the genetic level, because most genes are only expressed when needed. Biologists at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich, Germany, show that in microbes evolutionary ...


Nokia sues top LCD, CRT display makers

Technology / Business

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it has filed suits against several leading liquid crystal display makers - including Philips, Toshiba, Sharp and Samsung - for alleged price fixing.


The Cosmic Microwave Background

Researchers interpret asymmetry in early universe

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (35) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Big Bang is widely considered to have obliterated any trace of what came before. Now, astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) think that their new theoretical ...


WHO says Tamiflu still works against swine flu

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The World Health Organization says isolated cases of drug-resistant swine flu in Britain and the United States have not changed the agency's assessment of the disease.


New type of supernova explosion reported; predicted by theoretical physicists at UCSB

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their t ...


Physicists discover structures of gold nanoclusters

Physicists discover structures of gold nanoclusters

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 16, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Using different experimental techniques, two separate and independent research groups in collaboration with a team from the Center for Computational Materials Science (CCMS) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ...



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