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Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a result that may have implications for financial regulation, researchers from computer science and economics have revealed potentially impenetrable problems with the pricing of financial ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 42




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Celestial tapestry is born of uncertain parentage

(Phys.org) -- A new Legacy Image from the Gemini Observatory reveals the remarkable complexity of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71 (Sh 2-71). Embroiled in a bit of controversy over its “birth parents” ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Re-evaluation of Wulagasaurus indicates Basal Hadrosaurine dinosaurs originated in Asia

Several hundred disarticulated bones have been recovered from a large dinosaur quarry of the Upper Cretaceous Yuliangzi Formation at the base of the Wulaga outcrop of Heilongjiang Province near the Sino-Russian ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists create first free-standing 3-D cloak

Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Backing out of the nanotunnel: New method for nucleic acid analysis

Nanopores provide a versatile tool for probing molecular structures. A new German study shows that one can obtain more detailed information about the dynamic behavior of nucleic acids during passage through nanopores by directing ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 clones!

Xi-Jun Ren and Yang Xiang from Henan Universities in China, in collaboration with Heng Fan at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have produced a theory for a quantum cloning machine able to produce ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The future of airport passport control

Digital security specialists, major European electronics makers, and experts in biometrics worked together to make passport control at airports faster. The technology also could have broader applications on the way our identity ...

Technology / Other

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers use nanophotonics to more efficiently extract photons from single semiconductor quantum dots

An international team of researchers led by the CNST has developed a new type of nanophotonic cavity that improves the efficiency of photon collection from individual quantum dots while enhancing the photon ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

GRAIL and the mystery of the missing moon

(PhysOrg.com) -- As early as Sept. 8th, NASA's GRAIL mission will blast off to uncover some of the mysteries beneath the surface of the Moon. That cratered gray exterior hides some tantalizing things – ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Mathematicians, biologists explain why vertebrate intestines are so predictably loopy

Between conception and birth, the human gut grows more than two meters long, looping and coiling within the tiny abdomen. Within a given species, the developing vertebrate gut always loops into the same formation—however, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Caltech-led engineers solve longstanding problem in photonic chip technology

Stretching for thousands of miles beneath oceans, optical fibers now connect every continent except for Antarctica. With less data loss and higher bandwidth, optical-fiber technology allows information to ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast


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