News tagged with numerical model

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 ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

FLEX-ible insight into flame behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether free-burning or smoldering, uncontrolled fire can threaten life and destroy property. On Earth, a little water, maybe some chemicals, and the fire is smothered.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Storing quantum information permanently

Quantum memory is one of the basic building blocks needed for realizing a quantum computer one day. Atac Imamoglu, a professor of quantum electronics, and Renato Renner, a professor of theoretical physics, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tracking the origins of speedy space particles (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction during Substorms (THEMIS) spacecraft combined with computer models have helped track the origin of the energetic particles in Earth's ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Calculating tidal energy turbines' effects on sediments and fish

The emerging tidal-energy industry is spawning another in its shadow: tidal-energy monitoring. Little is known about tidal turbines' environmental effects and environmentalists, regulators and turbine manufacturers ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Planetary magnetic fields: The hunt for better models

Some three thousand kilometers below the surface of the Earth and with temperatures reaching those at the surface of the sun, the core of our home planet is no more within our physical reach today than it ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists Use Unique Model to Predict Active 2010 Hurricane Season

(PhysOrg.com) -- Florida State University scientists who have developed a unique computer model with a knack for predicting hurricanes with unprecedented accuracy are forecasting an unusually active season this year.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How to see through opaque materials

New experiments show that it's possible to focus light through opaque materials and detect objects hidden behind them, provided you know enough about the material.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Active hearing process in mosquitoes

A mathematical model has explained some of the remarkable features of mosquito hearing. In particular, the male can hear the faintest beats of the female's wings and yet is not deafened by loud noises.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists assess flooding and damage from 2008 Myanmar cyclone

Tropical cyclone Nargis made landfall in the Asian nation of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, causing the worst natural disaster in the country's recorded history - with a death toll that may have exceeded 138,000. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NASA views our perpetually moving ocean

(Phys.org) -- The swirling flows of Earth's perpetually changing ocean come to life in a new NASA scientific visualization that captures the movement of tens of thousands of ocean currents.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

CeBIT: Robot obeys commands and gestures

At the CeBIT in Hanover, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the FZI Research Center for Information Technology will present innovations for our everyday life in the future. At the joint stand G33 in hall ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cosmology in a Petri dish

Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth transitioning ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Mathematical model explains how complex societies emerge, collapse

The instability of large, complex societies is a predictable phenomenon, according to a new mathematical model that explores the emergence of early human societies via warfare. Capturing hundreds of years of human history, ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Meteorologist's weather technology aids soldiers, civilians

(PhysOrg.com) -- From battlefields to civilian settings, David Stauffer’s combination of weather and technology saves lives. Stauffer, a senior research associate and associate professor of meteorology at ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0