News tagged with europhysics letters

Game of go: A complex network

Could computers ever beat the best go players? Although unthinkable at this stage, this could soon become possible, thanks to CNRS theorists. For the first time, two scientists from the Theoretical Physics ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 31

Journal receives its first paper from space

EPL (Europhysics Letters) has today gone beyond Earthly limits by publishing its first ever paper submitted from space.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gyroscope's unexplained acceleration may be due to modified inertia

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a spinning laser gyroscope is placed near a super-cooled rotating ring, the gyroscope accelerates a bit in the same direction as the ring, and scientists aren’t sure why. The anomalous acceleration ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 51 feature

Antimatter gravity could explain Universe's expansion

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1998, scientists discovered that the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Currently, the most widely accepted explanation for this observation is the presence of an unidentified ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (44) | comments 266 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists discover fractal pattern in Scotch tape

(PhysOrg.com) -- Clear cellophane tape – which can be found in almost every home in the industrialized world – may seem quite ordinary, but recent research has shown otherwise. In 2008, scientists ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 23 | with audio podcast feature

Physicist finds colder isn't always slower as electron emissions increase at temps to -452 F

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science is detective work so it was not unexpected that new questions would follow old ones as Indiana University Bloomington nuclear physicist Hans-Otto Meyer's work progressed on testing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Physicists observe kink in the dispersion of f-electrons

(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos researchers in collaboration with colleagues in US and Europe report on the observation of a kink in the dispersion of f-electrons in USb2.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0