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The human brain is on the edge of chaos

Cambridge-based researchers provide new evidence that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos", at a critical transition point between randomness and order. The study, published March 20 in the open-access ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (37) | comments 18

Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos

Chaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 1

Hackers plot DIY Sputniks for Internet freedom

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hackers at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, which wrapped up over the weekend, are toasting the New Year with a newly announced plan for a hacker-owned satellite communications ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 16 | with audio podcast report

Hollywood movies follow a mathematical formula

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hollywood movies have found a mathematical formula that lets them match the effects of their shots to the attention spans of their audiences.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 19, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (24) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Model shows how scientific paradigms rise and fall

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientific concepts such as climate change, nanotechnology, and chaos theory can sometimes spring up and capture the attention of both the scientific and public communities, only to be replaced ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 14 | with audio podcast feature

Chaos puts a path on nanoparticles

At just over seven feet tall, Shaquille O’Neal is easy to spot in crowd. But the individual virus structures that give him, and us, a cold aren’t so easy to see.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Study shows disorder may cause an increase stereotyping

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study performed by Dutch social scientists Diederik Stapel and Siegwart Lindenberg, of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, suggests that people may resort to stereotyping to cope with ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Stirring the ore pot with Chaos theory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chaos theory could hold the key to making the in-situ leaching process a more effective ore extraction technique, according to a team of CSIRO Minerals Down Under Flagship scientists.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

What was that again? A mathematical model of language incorporates the need for repetition

As politicians know, repetition is often key to getting your message across. Now a former physicist studying linguistics at the Polish Academy of Sciences has taken this intuitive concept and incorporated it into a mathematical ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A new mathematical model explains patterns of human movement by considering the costs

Using previously published data on the time-stamped locations of 100,000 anonymous cell-phone users, a researcher from Duke University has identified three distinct patterns of human mobility for short, medium, and long distance ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Switching schools affects student achievement, study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Picture a kindergarten classroom of 20 students. By the time that class finishes fourth grade, only six students—30 percent—will have been continuously enrolled in the same school.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Wringing more energy out of everyday motions

Randomness and chaos in nature, as it turns out, can be a good thing – especially if you are trying to harvest energy from the movements of everyday activities like walking.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Mathematics confirm the chaos of the Spanish labor market

Unemployment time series in Spain behave in a chaotic way according to a study at the University of Seville. Such chaos demonstrates the complex and unpredictable nature of the Spanish labour market in the ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Understanding robustness in organisms -- a potential weapon against infectious diseases

"Robust" is an adjective appreciatively applied to certain vintage wines, but when describing viruses and pathogens, robustness is a property that may be much less desirable. It evokes drug resistant microbes and other superbugs ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can chaos theory help predict heart attacks?

Chaos models may someday help model cardiac arrhythmias -- abnormal electrical rhythms of the heart, say researchers in the journal CHAOS, which is published by the American Institute of Physics.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chaos

Chaos ( /ˈkeɪ.ɒs/;Greek: χάος ) refers to a state lacking order or predictability.

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