http://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. Andong He saw a phenomenon at work in his breakfast bowl that he couldn't explain. It prompted this question: How does cereal shape influence the way cereals floating in the milk join? http://phys.org/news287997193.html Physics Fri, 17 May 2013 08:13:22 EST news287997193 (Phys.org) —The results of a new study support what many people intuitively know about winning political elections: the party that has a more connected voter network usually receives more votes. However, the study also found that, if the less connected network has even a small fraction of strongly committed voters, these voters have the ability to reverse the election outcome. The study demonstrates how multiple interacting and interdependent networks can be used to model and gain insight into real-world political elections, with the potential to influence future campaign strategies. http://phys.org/news286186785.html Technology Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:10:01 EST news286186785 The truth behind some of the world's most famous historical myths, including Homer's epic, the Iliad, has been bolstered by two researchers who have analysed the relationships between the myths' characters and compared them to real-life social networks. http://phys.org/news262369748.html Other Sciences Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:00:05 EST news262369748 Could computers ever beat the best go players? Although unthinkable at this stage, this could soon become possible, thanks to CNRS theorists. For the first time, two scientists from the Theoretical Physics Laboratory and the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models, have applied network theory to a game of strategy. Their findings, published in the journal Europhysics Letters, should help to improve future simulation programs. http://phys.org/news253785912.html Other Sciences Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:20:01 EST news253785912 EPL (Europhysics Letters) has today gone beyond Earthly limits by publishing its first ever paper submitted from space. http://phys.org/news240238125.html Physics Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:49:01 EST news240238125 (PhysOrg.com) -- When a spinning laser gyroscope is placed near a super-cooled rotating ring, the gyroscope accelerates a bit in the same direction as the ring, and scientists aren’t sure why. The anomalous acceleration was discovered in 2007 by Martin Tajmar at the Space Propulsion group at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Seibersdorf, Austria. So far, the effect has only been observed in this one laboratory. Since then, scientists have been looking for an explanation for the so-called Tajmar effect. http://phys.org/news230880374.html Physics Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:20:01 EST news230880374 (PhysOrg.com) -- In 1998, scientists discovered that the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Currently, the most widely accepted explanation for this observation is the presence of an unidentified dark energy, although several other possibilities have been proposed. One of these alternatives is that some kind of repulsive gravity – or antigravity – is pushing the Universe apart. As a new study shows, general relativity predicts that the gravitational interaction between matter and antimatter is mutually repulsive, and could potentially explain the observed expansion of the Universe without the need for dark energy. http://phys.org/news221886622.html Physics Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:40:01 EST news221886622 (PhysOrg.com) -- Clear cellophane tape – which can be found in almost every home in the industrialized world – may seem quite ordinary, but recent research has shown otherwise. In 2008, scientists discovered that, when peeled, Scotch tape produces X-rays that are strong enough to image the bones in a human finger. In a new study, scientists have further investigated what happens when clear tape is peeled, and found that the tape's surface roughness displays a fractal pattern. The findings may lead to a better understanding of the processes involved in peeling, the origin of the X-ray emission, and in the design of better tape that can be reused repeatedly. http://phys.org/news211091812.html Physics Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:40:01 EST news211091812 (PhysOrg.com) -- Science is detective work so it was not unexpected that new questions would follow old ones as Indiana University Bloomington nuclear physicist Hans-Otto Meyer's work progressed on testing a fundamental symmetry of nature that could lead to understanding the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. http://phys.org/news191686338.html Physics Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:12:51 EST news191686338 (PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos researchers in collaboration with colleagues in US and Europe report on the observation of a kink in the dispersion of f-electrons in USb2. http://phys.org/news152816552.html Physics Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:03:08 EST news152816552