News tagged with nonlinear dynamics

Religion on the verge of extinction in many countries: math study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study recently released by a team from Northwestern University and the University of Arizona shows that religion and religious affiliations may be on the verge of extinction in the nine ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (51) | comments 557 | with audio podcast report

New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early days of quantum mechanics, scientists have been trying to understand the many strange implications of the theory: superpositions, wave-particle duality, and the observer’s ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (98) | comments 162 feature

Baby's first dreams: Research reveals sleep cycles in early fetus

After about seven months growing in the womb, a human fetus spends most of its time asleep. Its brain cycles back and forth between the frenzied activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and the quiet resting ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3




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Frequency stabilization in nonlinear nanomechanical oscillators

Using Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) expertise in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoscale devices, a new strategy for engineering low-frequency noise oscillators capitalizes on the intrinsic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The secrets of the system

As the United States seeks to reinvigorate its job market and move past economic recession, MIT News examines manufacturing’s role in the country’s economic future through this series on work at the Institute ...

Technology / Software

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lego pirate proves, survives, super rogue wave

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have used a Lego pirate floating in a fish tank to demonstrate for the first time that so-called ‘super rogue waves’ can come from nowhere in apparently calm seas and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Chaos puts a path on nanoparticles

At just over seven feet tall, Shaquille O’Neal is easy to spot in crowd. But the individual virus structures that give him, and us, a cold aren’t so easy to see.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1

The next big step toward atom-specific dynamical chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- For Ali Belkacem of Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division, “What is chemistry?” is not a rhetorical question.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Adding up photons with a transition edge sensor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have demonstrated that a superconducting detector called a transition edge sensor (TES) is capable of counting the number of as many as 1,000 photons in a single pulse of light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Measuring the distance of processes

A milestone in the description of complex processes - for example the ups and downs of share prices - has been reached by mathematicians at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Researchers led by Prof. Dr. Holger Dette (stochastics) ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Eye on ionization: Visualizing and controlling bound electron dynamics in strong laser fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Subatomic events can be remarkably counterintuitive. Such is the case in theoretical physics when, under certain specific conditions, atoms exposed to intense infrared laser pulses remain ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Two seemingly unrelated phenomena share surprising link: Physicists gain new insight into solitons

(PhysOrg.com) -- A coupled line of swinging pendulums apparently has nothing in common with an elastic film that buckles and folds under compression while floating on a liquid, but scientists at the University ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists propose solution to constraint satisfaction problems

(PhysOrg.com) -- Maria Ercsey-Ravasz, a postdoctoral associate and Zoltan Toroczkai, professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, have proposed an alternative approach to solving difficult constraint ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 11 | with audio podcast


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