News tagged with collection
Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins
(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems ...
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Scientists use Brownian Motion to Explore How Birds Flock Together
(PhysOrg.com) -- How do thousands of fish swim together in giant schools, seemingly moving as a single body? Flocks of birds, herds of beasts, and a variety of other animals in nature seem to share this same ...
Jan 23, 2009 |
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Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing
Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devices, with greater capacity than is currently ...
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Tool detects patterns hidden in vast data sets
Researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard University have developed a tool that can tackle large data sets in a way that no other software program can. Part of a suite of statistical tools called MINE, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Study finds small groups demonstrate distinctive 'collective intelligence' when facing difficult tasks
When it comes to intelligence, the whole can indeed be greater than the sum of its parts. A new study co-authored by MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and Union College researchers documents the existence of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Discovery could challenge established theory of the nucleus
(PhysOrg.com) -- By analyzing data from experiments performed earlier this decade at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator (ORELA), physicists have made observations that seem to conflict with the widely accepted theory ...
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Plasmonic Promises: First Observation of Plasmarons in Graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- The energy bands of complex particles known as plasmarons have been seen for the first time by scientists working with graphene at the Advanced Light Source. Their discovery may hasten the ...
May 20, 2010 |
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Scientists discover the molecular heart of collective behavior
Birds flock. Fish gather in schools. Bees swarm. Even amoebae clump together in mystifyingly clever constellations. Scientists have long wondered what is happening at the cellular and molecular level to bring about this amazing ...
May 20, 2010 |
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Carrots are better than sticks for building human cooperation
Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published this week in the journal Science by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Analysis of Flickr photos could lead to online travel books
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists have downloaded and analyzed nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by more than 300,000 photographers from around the globe, using a supercomputer at the Cornell Center ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Keep on spinning: A persistent spin state that could revolutionize spintronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...
Apr 02, 2009 |
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It's the network: Researchers examine behavior influenced by network structure
A team of computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the political, social and economic struggle between individual self-interest and the need to build a consensus have learned that, depending only ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Whether tweets live or die depends more on network, competition for attention than message or user influence
On the global social media stage, it's not so much the message but rather network structure and competition for attention that determine whether a meme becomes popular and shows staying power or whether it ...
Apr 03, 2012 |
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Fermions exhibit collective behavior in unexpected situations
Some people like company. Others prefer to be alone. The same holds true for the particles that constitute the matter around us: Some, called bosons, like to act in unison with others. Others, called fermions, have a mind ...
Mar 29, 2012 |
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When ions get closer: New physical attraction between ions in quantum plasmas
Nowadays, ever smaller and more powerful computer chips are in demand. German physicists have discovered a new physical attraction that accelerates this progress.
Mar 26, 2012 |
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