A team of researchers at Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, has developed a stochastic equation for modeling population growth in cities. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes creating their ...
Amyloids are aggregates consisting of stacks of thousands of proteins bound tightly together. Their formation is involved in several widespread disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and Type II diabetes.
General Physics
Jan 28, 2020
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Most systems in nature are inherently nonlinear, meaning that their response to any external excitation is not proportional to the strength of the applied stimulus. Nonlinearities are observed, for example, in macroscopic ...
Plasma Physics
Jul 11, 2016
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Global population data spanning the years from 1900 to 2010 have enabled a research team from the Autonomous University of Madrid to predict that the number of people on Earth will stabilise around the middle of the century. ...
Social Sciences
Apr 4, 2013
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The latest Mars destination is a giant crater near the equator with an odd feature: a mountain rising from the crater floor.
Space Exploration
Aug 4, 2012
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(Phys.org) —The American Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics Richard Feynman once described turbulence as "the most important unsolved problem of classical physics", because a description of the phenomenon from first principles ...
General Physics
Apr 3, 2013
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The farther that human populations live from the equator, the bigger their brains, according to a new study by Oxford University. But it turns out that this is not because they are smarter, but because they need bigger vision ...
Evolution
Jul 27, 2011
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Opportunity, NASA's other Mars rover, has tooled around the red planet for so long it's easy to forget it's still alive.
Space Exploration
Jan 21, 2013
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NASA said Monday it's not giving up on Mars, but it'll have to get there later and at a lower price.
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2012
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(Phys.org) —In "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (JK Rowling, 1997), Harry, Ron, and Hermione encounter a massive stone chessboard, one of many obstacles in their path. To advance, they must play, and win. Although ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 23, 2013
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