News tagged with cooperation

Iron-based superconductors exhibit s-wave symmetry

(Phys.org) -- Condensed-matter physicists the world over are in hot pursuit of a comprehensive understanding of high-temperature superconductivity, not just for its technological benefits but for the clues ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

S. Korea, Peru announce defense technology deal

South Korea's Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan agreed Thursday to grant technology transfers to Peru to help strengthen the Latin American nation's navy and air force.

Technology / Other

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Cooperation vs. Competition: Greed is good -- but only a moderate amount

(PhysOrg.com) -- Relationships between cooperation, competition, and society have long been pondered by psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, philosophers, and mathematicians. While (as ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 19 | with audio podcast feature

To build a cooperative society, is it better to punish or reward?

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the basic components of a functional, cooperative society is a code of law, where the laws are usually enforced by some kind of incentive. Social incentives can either be positive (rewards) or negative ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 91 | with audio podcast feature

New study of hunter-gatherers suggests social networks sparked evolution of cooperation

Ancient humans may not have had the luxury of updating their Facebook status, but social networks were nevertheless an essential component of their lives, a new study suggests.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Atomic-scale visualization of electron pairing in iron superconductors

(Phys.org) -- By measuring how strongly electrons are bound together to form Cooper pairs in an iron-based superconductor, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Pay it forward' pays off

For all those dismayed by scenes of looting in disaster-struck zones, whether Haiti or Chile or elsewhere, take heart: Good acts - acts of kindness, generosity and cooperation - spread just as easily as bad. ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists show how social interaction and teamwork lead to human intelligence

Scientists have discovered proof that the evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork, shedding new light on the origins of what it means to be human. The study appears online ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

The Black Queen Hypothesis: A new evolutionary theory

Microorganisms can sometimes lose the ability to perform a function that appears to be necessary for their survival, and yet they still somehow manage to endure and multiply. How can this be? The authors of an opinion piece ...

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

New Study Eyes Evolution of Fairness and Punishment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have long been puzzled by large societies in which strangers routinely engage in voluntary acts of kindness, respect and mutual benefit even though there is often an individual cost involved.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

In amoeba world, cheating doesn't pay

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheaters may prosper in the short term, but over time they seem doomed to fail, at least in the microscopic world of amoebas where natural selection favors the noble.

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

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

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Great balls of evolution: Microbiologists evolve microorganisms to cooperate in new way

University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologists Derek Lovley, Zarath Summers and colleagues report in the Dec. 2 issue of Science that they have discovered a new cooperative behavior in anaerobic bacteria, known as int ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Testing technicolor physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ramps up the rate and impact of its collisions, physicists hope to witness the emergence of the Higgs boson, an anticipated, but as-yet-unseen, fundamental ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

OECD report shows dramatic decline in patent quality

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published its Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard for 2011 and one section shows that patent quality over the past 20 years has declined dr ...

Technology / Business

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Cooperation

Cooperation or co-operation is the process of working or acting together. In its simplest form it involves things working in harmony, side by side, while in its more complicated forms, it can involve something as complex as the inner workings of a human being or even the social patterns of a nation. It is the alternative to working separately in competition. Cooperation can also be accomplished by computers, which can handle shared resources simultaneously, while sharing processor time.

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