News tagged with model system
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A big surprise from the edge of the solar system: magnetic bubbles (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Climate models make too hot forecasts of global warming
Data from NASA's Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth's atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change have been programmed to "believe."
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2011 |
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Magnetism's subatomic roots: Study of high-tech materials helps explain everyday phenomenon
(PhysOrg.com) -- The modern world -- with its ubiquitous electronic devices and electrical power -- can trace its lineage directly to the discovery, less than two centuries ago, of the link between electricity and magnetism. ...
Sep 03, 2010 |
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CO2 effects on plants increases global warming
Trees and other plants help keep the planet cool, but rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are turning down this global air conditioner. According to a new study by researchers at the Carnegie ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 03, 2010 |
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Earth's hot past could be prologue to future climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- The magnitude of climate change during Earth's deep past suggests that future temperatures may eventually rise far more than projected if society continues its pace of emitting greenhouse ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Mastering multicore
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers have developed software that makes computer simulations of physical systems run much more efficiently on so-called multicore chips. In experiments involving chips with 24 separate ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Formation of Saturn's ring moons explained
(PhysOrg.com) -- New computer simulations based on data collected by the Cassini spacecraft mission suggest five of Saturn's moons may have been formed only 10 million years ago, and researchers in France ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Master regulator found for regenerating nerve fibers in live animals
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston report that an enzyme known as Mst3b, previously identified in their lab, is essential for regenerating damaged axons (nerve fibers) in a live animal model, in both the peripheral ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 25, 2009 |
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From candy floss to rock: Study provides new evidence about beginnings of the solar system
(PhysOrg.com) -- The earliest rocks in our Solar System were more like candy floss than the hard rock that we know today, according to research published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 27, 2011 |
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New model provides different take on planetary accretion
(PhysOrg.com) -- The prevailing model for planetary accretion, also called fractal assembly, and dating back as far as the 18th century, assumes that the Solar System’s planets grew as small grains colliding ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Fire influences global warming more than previously thought
Fire's potent and pervasive effects on ecosystems and on many Earth processes, including climate change, have been underestimated, according to a new report.
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Scientists identify enzyme important in aging
The secret to longevity may lie in an enzyme with the ability to promote a robust immune system into old age by maintaining the function of the thymus throughout life, according to researchers studying an "anti-aging" mouse ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 10, 2009 |
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Extensive regeneration in nerve connecting eye to brain achieved
Damage to the optic nerve, connecting the eye with the brain, is a major cause of blindness. The most common culprit is glaucoma, estimated to affect more than 4 million Americans. There is currently no way to restore the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 06, 2010 |
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New computer model advances climate change research
Scientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Game of go: A complex network
Could computers ever beat the best go players? Although unthinkable at this stage, this could soon become possible, thanks to CNRS theorists. For the first time, two scientists from the Theoretical Physics ...
Apr 16, 2012 |
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