https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. An amazing construction method for curved structures was developed at TU Wien (Vienna): With a flick of the wrist, flat grids become a 3-D shape. https://phys.org/news/2020-08-mathematical-magic-grids.html Mathematics Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:31:50 EDT news517498304 Grid cells, space-mapping neurons of the entorhinal cortex of rodents, could also work for hyperbolic surfaces. A SISSA study just published in Interface, the journal of the Royal Society, tests a model (a computer simulation) based on mathematical principles, that explains how maps emerge in the brain and shows how these maps adapt to the environment in which the individual develops. https://phys.org/news/2015-05-brain-map-geometries.html Other Wed, 06 May 2015 17:16:32 EDT news350146516 An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory (video) on Tuesday could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. https://phys.org/news/2011-06-unusual-solar-storm-disrupt-earth.html Space Exploration Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:47:15 EDT news226680413 (PhysOrg.com) -- Our Sun can be a menace when it sends out powerful solar blasts of radiation towards the Earth. Astronomers keenly watch the Sun to learn more about what powers these solar eruptions, in hopes of being able to predict them. New research shows that one-third of the Sun's blasts are "sneak attacks" that may occur without warning. https://phys.org/news/2010-12-sun.html Space Exploration Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:50:02 EST news211007928 (PhysOrg.com) -- In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists at the University of Rochester have created a simple slab of metal that lifts liquid using the same principle—but does so at a speed that would make nature envious. https://phys.org/news/2009-06-scientists-metal-liquid-uphill.html General Physics Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:20:53 EDT news163160428 (PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes are at the center of the nanoelectronics research movement, with scientists making great progress toward getting nanotube-based electronic devices into the hands of consumers. But one area of carbon nanotube research where there has been considerably less success is creating repeating, regular patterns onto individual nanotubes, a task necessary for a key goal of nanoelectronics: patterning transistors directly onto nanotube surfaces. https://phys.org/news/2009-05-patterns-carbon-nanotubes-polymer-chains.html Nanomaterials Tue, 19 May 2009 11:17:36 EDT news161950586