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How to win by concession and avoid unproductive conflict

A new study published in Economic Inquiry explores the seminal question: "If we can make a deal, why fight?" The authors conclude that a combination of common knowledge and a common rate of time preference allow a potent ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Physicists control quantum tunneling with light for the first time

Scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have used light to help push electrons through a classically impenetrable barrier. While quantum tunnelling is at the heart of the peculiar wave nature of particles, this ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Electron's negativity cut in half by supercomputer

(PhysOrg.com) -- While physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smash together thousands of protons and other particles to see what matter is made of, they're never going to hurl electrons at each other. No ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (26) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Possible signs of the Higgs remain in latest analyses (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have nearly eliminated the space in which the Higgs boson could dwell, scientists announced in a seminar held at CERN today. However, the ATLAS ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Coins show Herod built only part of Second Temple walls

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered ancient coins near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City which challenge the assumption that all of the walls of the Second Temple were built by King Herod.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 48

How to discover a new element

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not the same as it used to be, the element finding business. We have discovered and named all the elements from hydrogen (element 1) up to element 112 (copernicium)[1], and last week ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Nothing, not anything and zero

(PhysOrg.com) -- Space and time are inextricably linked, which is why astrophysicists speak of them in the same breath.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 1

EU bids to lock down radioactive waste forever

Europe sought Wednesday to lock away forever lethal radioactive waste, but a European Commission warning of hopelessly inadequate disposal facilities itself drew a stinging rebuke.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

German physicists develop a quantum interface between light and atoms

German hysicists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have developed a quantum interface which connects light particles and atoms.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Signing contracts on the telephone

Internet telephony has developed from a niche product into standard technology in recent years. Most telephone providers switched their background technology to Voice over IP, or VoIP for short, long ago. BITKOM, the German ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery about behavior of building block of nature could lead to computer revolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and a holons.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 7


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