News tagged with infinite number

Using virtual worlds to 'soft control' people's movements in the real one

Eighty-eight percent of Americans now own a cell phone, forming a massive network that offers scientists a wealth of information and an infinite number of new applications. With the help of these phone users — and their ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pasta-shaped radio waves beamed across Venice

A group of Italian and Swedish researchers appears to have solved the problem of radio congestion by cleverly twisting radio waves into the shape of fusilli pasta, allowing a potentially infinite number of channels to be ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 53 | with audio podcast

A classic model for ecological stability revised, 40 years later

A famous mathematical formula which shook the world of ecology 40 years ago has been revisited and refined by two University of Chicago researchers in the current issue of Nature.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Bacterial communication could affect Earth's climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists have discovered that bacterial communication could have a significant impact on the planet's climate.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists find first evidence that many universes exist

(PhysOrg.com) -- By looking far out into space and observing what’s going on there, scientists have been led to theorize that it all started with a Big Bang, immediately followed by a brief period of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (94) | comments 140 | with audio podcast weblog

Time likely to end within 5 billion years, physicists calculate

(PhysOrg.com) -- As far as astrophysicists can tell, the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, and will likely continue to do so indefinitely. But now some physicists are saying that this theory, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (59) | comments 96 | with audio podcast report