News tagged with communication process

Same samples, different analytical strategies, complementary inferences

(Phys.org) -- The results of two separate but complementary analyses on 400 samples of Hanford Site groundwater appeared together in the journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. The studies ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Report seeks to integrate microbes into climate models

The models used to understand how Earth's climate works include thousands of different variables from many scientific including atmospherics, oceanography, seismology, geology, physics and chemistry, but few take into consideration ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Modeling microbes to manage carbon dioxide

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past decade, microbiologists began realizing that communities of microbes process energy and materials, which affects their environments. To understand how microbial communities function ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Trees influence epiphyte and invertebrate communities

Studies in temperate regions have demonstrated that genetic differences between individual trees affect the ecological communities and ecosystem processes associated with them. Now scientists at Manchester ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Proposed experiment offers new way to generate macroscopic entanglement

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the development of quantum information processing, one of the key requirements is achieving quantum entanglement. But recently, physicists have been investigating other forms of quantum correlations besides ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Physicists demonstrate the quantum von Neumann architecture

A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in this week's issue of Science Express online.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Reducing noise in quantum operation at room temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- "A quantum memory is a crucial component of future quantum information processing technologies. Among these technologies, a quantum communications system based on light will enable vastly improved performance ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Important aspects of signalling across cell membranes in plants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every living plant cell and animal cell is surrounded by a membrane that helps it communicate with other cells and the outside world. These cellular membranes contain receptor molecules that ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study warns of mercury in Arctic

Global mercury emissions could grow by 25 percent by 2020 if no action is taken to control them, posing a threat to polar bears, whales and seals and the Arctic communities who hunt those animals for food, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Google advances on mobile payment system, makes partnerships with MasterCard, Citigroup

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google is making some new friends in the world of finance. They have announced partnerships with both MasterCard and Citigroup, that will allow users of Android-based phones to go shopping ...

Technology / Business

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

What are the grassroot effects of globalization?

An investigation by the Human Geography Research Group at Glasgow University has highlighted the uneven effects of globalization on local communities in the UK.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chip provides its own power

Microchips that 'harvest' the energy they need from their own surroundings, without depending on batteries or mains electricity. That will be possible now that Dutch researchers from the University of Twente's ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

This little light of mine: Changing the color of single photons emitted by quantum dots

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated* for the first time the conversion of near-infrared 1,300 nm wavelength single photons emitted from a true quantum source, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Magical thinking' about islands is an illusion

Long before TV's campy Fantasy Island, the isolation of island communities has touched an exotic and magical core in us. Darwin's fascination with the Galapagos island chain and the evolution of its plant ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Meeting consumers' HD demands with a faster algorithm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers help smaller processors outperform a single superfast processor by working more efficiently in parallel.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast