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When dark energy turned on (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some six billion light years distant, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (19) | comments 68 | with audio podcast

Physics Model Determines Dynamics of Friends and Enemies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes friends can become enemies and enemies become friends, and it’s difficult to understand exactly how or why the changes took place. A new study shows that when the shifting of alliances ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 6 feature

Study reveals who profits and who incur losses from provision of immediacy in the stock market

While mutual funds and issue of stocks cause price impact, hedge funds and repurchase of shares decrease this. The doctoral dissertation by Kalle Rinne, M. Sc. (Econ.), studies how demand and provision of immediacy affects ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Want a piece of Facebook? Get in line

Facebook may be the year's hottest stock issue -- but try getting a piece of it. Small investors will find the line long and hurdles high to get even a handful of shares.

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Half of your friends lost in seven years

Had a good chat with someone recently? Has a good friend just helped you to do up your home? Then you will be lucky if that person still does that in seven years time. Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst investigated how the context ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 7

Searching for dark energy with the whole world's supernova dataset

The international Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP), based at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has announced the Union2 compilation of hundreds of Type Ia supernovae, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Plants mimic scent of pollinating beetles

The color and scent of flowers and their perception by pollinator insects are believed to have evolved in the course of mutual adaptation. However, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Zurich has ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New Study Eyes Evolution of Fairness and Punishment

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have long been puzzled by large societies in which strangers routinely engage in voluntary acts of kindness, respect and mutual benefit even though there is often an individual cost involved.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections

(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 8

Biodiversity can promote survival on a warming planet

Whether a species can evolve to survive climate change may depend on the biodiversity of its ecological community, according to a new mathematical model that simulates the effect of climate change on plants ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

An equation for friendship

If only they had been there in 1939: Plugging in numbers representing the friendliness between pairs of nations at the outset of World War II, researchers at Cornell University used a computer program to successfully predict ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Trees retaliate when their fig wasps don't service them

Figs and fig wasps have evolved to help each other out: Fig wasps lay their eggs inside the fruit where the wasp larvae can safely develop, and in return, the wasps pollinate the figs.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Species cooperate out of self-interest rather than to be mutually beneficial, study says

(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying employment contract theory to symbiosis, a new paper suggests that the mutually beneficial relationships that species create are maintained because of simple self-interest, with partners ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The Joy of sets: For ants and trees, multiple partners are a boon

In the complex world of ant-plant partnerships, serial monogamy can help trees maximize their evolutionary fitness, a new University of Florida study shows.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Acacias use ants to guard flowers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by Dr Nigel Raine, Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour at Royal Holloway, University of London has revealed how a special plant-ant relationship thrives on give and take for mutual ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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