Materials belonging to the family of dilute magnetic oxides (DMOs)—an oxide-based variant of the dilute magnetic semiconductors—are good candidates for spintronics applications. This is the object of ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

May 17, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Migrations happen for a reason, not randomly. A new study, based on computer simulation, attempts to explain the effect of so-called directional migration – migration for a reason – on cooperative behaviours ...

Physics - General Physics

Apr 03, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

Swarming is the spontaneous organised motion of a large number of individuals. It is observed at all scales, from bacterial colonies, slime moulds and groups of insects to shoals of fish, flocks of birds and ...

Physics - General Physics

Mar 15, 2013 4.8 / 5 (8) 0 |

Yttria stabilized zirconia, also known as YSZ, is a material of great interest because of its relatively high oxygen-ion based conductivity. In particular, it finds applications in electrochemical devices, such as solid oxide ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Feb 27, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—A significant percentage of the costs of wind energy is due to wind turbine failures, as components are weakened under turbulent air flow conditions and need to be replaced. The challenge for the team was to ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Feb 12, 2013 not rated yet 0

Novel, smart materials like shape memory alloys very often display so-called glass-like magnetism. Other smart materials with similar properties include those which, when exposed to a magnetic field, change their electrical ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Jan 28, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—By doping a bismuth-based layered material with silver, Chinese scientists demonstrated that superconductivity is intrinsic to the new material rather than stemming from its impurities.

Physics - Superconductivity

Dec 20, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 23

Researchers have developed models of bacterial outer membranes that can help develop better antibiotics to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Nov 16, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—A team of Brazilian physicists working with neuroscientists studying freely behaving rats have found that their neurons often act in precise coordination over time, in a study about to be published in the European Ph ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 07, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

A team of physicists from Europe and South Africa showed that electrons moving randomly in graphene can mimic the dynamics of particles such as cosmic rays, despite travelling at a fraction of their speed, in a paper about ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Oct 31, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—A study on how gold atoms bond to other atoms using a model that takes into account bonds direction has been carried out by physicist Marie Backman from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Sep 19, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 3 |

Biomedical engineer Muhammet Uzuntarla from Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey, and his colleagues present a biologically accurate model of the underlying noise which is present in the nervous system. The article is about to ...

Physics - General Physics

Aug 15, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Imposing minimal capital levels for banks is like attempting to solve a complex jigsaw puzzle with a poorly fitting piece that could lead to even greater chaos.

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Aug 09, 2012 not rated yet 1

A mathematical physicist and her colleague, both from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, are about to publish a study in European Physical Journal B on a family of taxation and wealth redistribution models. The fi ...

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Jul 30, 2012 4.9 / 5 (8) 20

For theoretical physicist Dima Shepelyansky from the CNRS-University of Toulouse, France, devising models of chaos and turbulence is his bread and butter. In a recent study published in European Physical Journal B, he pre ...

Physics - General Physics

Jul 27, 2012 3.3 / 5 (4) 0