News tagged with mathematical calculation

The new world of gamma-ray optics

Scientists discover that certain materials like silicon or gold exhibit a surprisingly large refractive index for extremely high energetic gamma-rays.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers theorize cold compression of graphite results in new superhard carbon allotropes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in China have used math calculations to predict that under cold compression, two new carbon allotropes may be formed. In their paper pre-published on arXiv, the team describes how th ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Computer scientist drives for comprehensive traffic model

Traffic and transit information from smart phones, online maps, or radio and TV is not as timely or accurate as it could be, given all the untapped data that could provide a truly dynamic regional traffic picture.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cebit 2012: The wireless bicycle brake, a prototype on an exciting mission

A German computer scientist has developed a reliable wireless bicycle brake.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8

Intelligent software assigns appropriate background music for pictures

Previously, setting a picture or whole series of pictures to suitable music required expert knowledge and a great deal of time. Newly developed software called Picasso succeeds in arranging pictures with appropriate ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 31 | with audio podcast

Digital quantum simulator realized

(PhysOrg.com) -- The physicists of the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck have come considerably closer to their goal to investigate complex ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists accelerate simulations of thin film growth

A Toledo, Ohio, physicist has implemented a new mathematical approach that accelerates some complex computer calculations used to simulate the formation of micro-thin materials.

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Water waves exhibit negative gravity near a periodic array of buoys

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ocean waves can be incredibly strong and very difficult to block completely. When a wave moving across the ocean interacts with a buoy, the wave can be slightly dampened, but will still pass ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 17 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers discover the cause of irradiation-induced instability in materials surfaces

A new discovery about the dynamic impact of individual energetic particles into a solid surface improves our ability to predict surface stability or instability of materials under irradiation over time.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A zero sum game

(PhysOrg.com) -- New light has been shed on the 150-year-old math puzzle known as the Riemann hypothesis, say mathematical physicists at the University of Sydney.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Soap films help to solve mathematical problems

Soap bubbles and films have always fascinated children and adults, but they can also serve to solve complex mathematical calculations. This is shown by a study carried out by two professors at the University ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios

Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (45) | comments 8

Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

First-ever calculation performed on optical quantum computer chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical calculation. This is the first time a calculation ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 10

New tool enables powerful data analysis

(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful computing tool that allows scientists to extract features and patterns from enormously large and complex sets of raw data has been developed by scientists at University of California, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 4