News tagged with classical chaos

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




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You can't play nano-billiards on a bumpy table

(Phys.org) -- There’s nothing worse than a shonky pool table with an unseen groove or bump that sends your shot off course: a new study has found that the same goes at the nano-scale, where the “billiard ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Loss of planetary tilt could doom alien life

Although winter now grips much of the Northern Hemisphere, those who dislike the cold weather can rest assured that warmer months shall return. This familiar pattern of spring, summer, fall and winter does ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Two-step technique makes graphene suitable for organic chemistry

The future brightened for organic chemistry when researchers at Rice University found a highly controllable way to attach organic molecules to pristine graphene, making the miracle material suitable for a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The World-Changer: Steve Jobs knew what we wanted

(AP) -- In dark suit and bowtie, he is a computing-era carnival barker - eyebrows bouncing, hands gesturing, smile seductive and coy and a bit annoying. It's as if he's on his first date with an entire generation ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Classical ideas endure in modern digital culture: study

Computer enhanced images surround us. Flip through any magazine or catch a current film and you will find scores of digitally enhanced images that serve as ideals. According to Radio and Television Arts professor ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Irene forecasts on track; not up to speed on wind

(AP) -- Hurricane Irene was no mystery to forecasters. They knew where it was going. But what it would do when it got there was another matter.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Great gray owls find a surprising home on timber firm's land

Flip through a field guide to western birds and you'll discover the great gray owl occupies the narrowest of ecological niches in California: dense conifer forests next to moist mountain meadows.

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists lack complete answers on radiation risk

(AP) -- Thyroid cancer for sure. Leukemia, probably. Too much radiation can raise the risk of developing cancer years down the road, scientists agree, and the young are most vulnerable. But just how much or ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Predictions of upcoming winners for Nobel Prize in physics

The announcement of the winners of the next Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday morning will bring to an end the very private deliberations within the Swedish Academy, which selects the winner. It will also ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Professor's book touches on complicated social development, geography

A small, flat-faced, yapping dog named Looty has a big story behind him. And it goes back centuries.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1


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