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Special report highlights 'greatest hits' of scientific supercomputing

In 2007, a report that concluded that the Earth was warming, probably as a result of human activities, resulted in a share of the Nobel Peace Prize. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Mathematicians Solve 140-Year-Old Boltzmann Equation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two University of Pennsylvania mathematicians have found solutions to a 140-year-old, 7-dimensional equation that were not known to exist for more than a century despite its widespread use in modeling the ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (69) | comments 5 | with audio podcast




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Extended Coulomb failure criteria for the Zipingpu reservoir and Longmenshan slip

The extended Coulomb failure stress (ECFS) criteria and anisotropic porosity and permeability tensor at micro/meso/macro scale under ultra‑high temperature and pressure (UTP) conditions were developed ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Computation helps predict heat transfer in diamond

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researcher Derek Stewart and collaborators have calculated the exact mechanism by which diamond conducts heat, a breakthrough that could lend insight into many fields, including electronics.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Evolution as Described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Often, physics and biology appear as different worlds, from a scientist’s point of view. Each discipline has its own language and concepts, and physicists and biologists tend to look at the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 11, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (112) | comments 29 feature

Dilaton could affect abundance of dark matter particles

The amount of dark matter left over from the early universe may be less than previously believed. Research published in the open access journal PMC Physics A shows that the "relic abundance" of stable dark matter particles such a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 02, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (33) | comments 2


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