News tagged with computer simulations
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Video simulations of real earthquakes made available to worldwide network
A Princeton University-led research team has developed the capability to produce realistic movies of earthquakes based on complex computer simulations that can be made available worldwide within hours of a ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Parting the waters: Computer modeling applies physics to Red Sea escape route (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The biblical account of the parting of the Red Sea has inspired and mystified people for millennia. A new computer modeling study by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Mars methane lasts less than a year
A new study indicates that methane in the atmosphere of Mars lasts less than a year. Methane is replenished from localized sources that show seasonal and annual variations. This pattern of methane production ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Less is more in the fight against terrorism
Terrorist networks are complex. Now, a mathematical analysis of their properties published this month in the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, suggests that the best way to fight them is to iso ...
Sep 17, 2010 |
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3-D computer simulations help envision supernovae explosions (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- For scientists, supernovae are true superstars -- massive explosions of huge, dying stars that shine light on the shape and fate of the universe.
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Optimizing climate change reduction
Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology have taken a new approach on examining a proposal to fix the warming planet. So-called geoengineering ideas—large-scale projects to change ...
Sep 16, 2010 |
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UT's Remote Data Analysis and Visualization Center enters full production
Nautilus, the powerful computer for visualizing and analyzing large datasets at the Remote Data Analysis and Visualization Center (RDAV), goes into full production on September 20. Managed by the University of Tennessee (UT) ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Physicists investigate fate of five-dimensional black strings
(PhysOrg.com) -- While black holes in four-dimensional space-time are stable and can persist for a long time, their higher-dimensional analogues are usually unstable. One such theoretical analogue is a five-dimensional ...
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Supercomputing on a cell phone
Many engineering disciplines rely on supercomputers to simulate complicated physical phenomena — how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels. Now, researchers ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 07, 2010 |
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'Hot Jupiter' planets unlikely to have moons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Planets of the major type so far found outside our solar system are unlikely to have moons, according to new research reported in the August 20 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Aug 23, 2010 |
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Researchers make magnetic fields breakthrough
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic fields, which enhances our understanding of how stars, including the Sun, work.
Aug 20, 2010 |
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Limiting ocean acidification under global change
Emissions of carbon dioxide are causing ocean acidification as well as global warming. Scientists have previously used computer simulations to quantify how curbing of carbon dioxide emissions would mitigate climate impacts. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 20, 2010 |
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Cold atoms make microwave fields visible
Using clouds of ultracold atoms, a scientific team at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Germany) have made microwave fields visible.
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Quantum entanglement in photosynthesis and evolution
Recently, academic debate has been swirling around the existence of unusual quantum mechanical effects in the most ubiquitous of phenomena, including photosynthesis, the process by which organisms convert light into chemical ...
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Thin-Film Solar Cells: New Insights into the Indium/Gallium Puzzle
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany) have made a major breakthrough in their search for more efficient thin-film solar cells. Computer simulations designed to investigate the so-called indium/gallium ...
Jul 19, 2010 |
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