News tagged with hidden order

One of the most important problems in materials science solved

Together with three colleagues Professor Peter Oppeneer of Uppsala University has explained the hitherto unsolved mystery in materials science known as 'the hidden order' - how a new phase arises and why. This discovery ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (35) | comments 39




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Her majesty's secret

One of the greatest cliches uttered about her majesty Queen Elizabeth II is that in 60 years of reigning over us, "she has never put a foot wrong". This may well be true, but how do we know? What do we really ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Using strategy tools to exercise power in a company

Popular strategy tools used by businesses include SWOT analysis and scorecards. Strategy tools are seen as a means that provides companies with practical ways of making use of scientific theories in order to improve competitiveness. ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Velvet spiders emerge from underground in new cybertaxonomic monograph

Velvet spiders include some of the most beautiful arachnids in Europe and some of the world's most cooperative species. Social species can be very abundant in parts of tropical Africa and Asia with conspicuous co ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The real cost of coal is quickly adding up

"Cheap coal" is a myth. And like all myths, we accept its wisdom without thinking.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Richer parasite diversity leads to healthier frogs: study

Increases in the diversity of parasites that attack amphibians cause a decrease in the infection success rate of virulent parasites, including one that causes malformed limbs and premature death, says a new University of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UK surveillance could yield window into lives

(AP) -- British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails."

Technology / Internet

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Lunar boom: Why we'll soon be mining the moon

As history has repeatedly shown, where there are valuable minerals to be unearthed, adventurous humans will arrive in droves – even if it means battling extreme conditions and risking life and limb.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 4

Chimpanzee uses innovative foresighted methods to fool humans

Chimpanzee Santino achieved international fame in 2009 for his habit of gathering stones and manufacturing concrete projectiles to throw at zoo visitors. A new study shows that Santino's innovativeness when he plans his stone-throwing ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Researchers reveal unseen planet by its gravity

More than a 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet's existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus. In a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Determining a stem cell's fate: Biologists scour mouse genome for genes and markers that lead to T cells

What happens to a stem cell at the molecular level that causes it to become one type of cell rather than another? At what point is it committed to that cell fate, and how does it become committed? The answers ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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