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Research pokes holes in Hubbard model: Could help solve enigma of high-temperature superconductors

New UBC research has literally and figuratively poked holes in single-band Hubbard physics--a model that has been used to predict and calculate the behavior of high-temperature superconductors for 20 years.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 6




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In forests, past disturbances obscure warming impacts

Past disturbances, such as logging, can obscure the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems. So reports a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper, explor ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

On endless ice, searching for clues to our future

(AP) -- The pilot eased his five-ton helicopter toward the glacier's rumpled surface, aiming for the lightest of setdowns atop one of the fastest-flowing ice streams on Earth.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 19

Physicists report progress in understanding high-temperature superconductors

Although high-temperature superconductors are widely used in technologies such as MRI machines, explaining the unusual properties of these materials remains an unsolved problem for theoretical physicists. Major progress in ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Unsung bedrock of prosperity

Modern agriculture would be inconceivable without phosphate fertilizers - and it needs more and more of them. Experts warn of an imminent phosphorus shortage. But not Roland Scholz from the Institute of Environmental ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Best 'sweet spots' on the backboard

According to Larry Hunter, the act of banking a basketball off the backboard and into the hoop is becoming a lost art.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Animal with the most genes? A tiny crustacean: First crustacean genome sequenced

Complexity ever in the eye of its beholders, the animal with the most genes -- about 31,000 -- is the near-microscopic freshwater crustacean Daphnia pulex, or water flea. By comparison, humans have about ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Supercomputer application solves superconductor puzzle

Superconducting materials, which transmit power resistance-free, are found to perform optimally when high- and low-charge density varies on the nanoscale level, according to research performed at the Department of Energy's ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 09, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

How do you control a bicycle?

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Just like riding a bike" is a cliche for a simple skill you do not forget, but understanding how a human controls a bicycle is in some ways more challenging than understanding how a pilot flies an airplane, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7

The Earth has its own set of rules

Early in our history it didn't make any difference how we viewed our environment. We could change it, and if we didn't like what we did to it, we could move and natural processes would soon obliterate whatever we had done. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (25) | comments 36

Introns: A mystery renewed

The sequences of nonsense DNA that interrupt genes could be far more important to the evolution of genomes than previously thought, according to a recent Science report by Indiana University Bloomington and ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0


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