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Intelligent Traffic System Predicts Future Traffic Flow on Multiple Roads

(PhysOrg.com) -- In urban areas, there’s almost always more than one way to get somewhere, but often it’s difficult to predict which road will be fastest. In an attempt to improve traffic flow and decrease ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (94) | comments 5 feature

Single-atom transistor is 'perfect'

In a remarkable feat of micro-engineering, UNSW physicists have created a working transistor consisting of a single atom placed precisely in a silicon crystal.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (44) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Global eruption rocks the sun

On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Nanoscale spin waves can replace microwaves

A group of scientists from the University of Gothenburg and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, have become the first group in the world to demonstrate that theories about nanoscale spin waves ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Key new ingredient in climate model refines global predictions

For the first time, climate scientists from across the country have successfully incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change, questioning previous assumptions regarding carbon feedback and potentially ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (23) | comments 28

New Solar Cycle Prediction

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 16

Graphene: Scientists figure out how to shatter the world's strongest material

In 2008, experiments at The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University established pure graphene, a single layer of graphite only one atom thick, as the strongest material known to mankind. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Predicting random violence by mathematics

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in Science, researchers, led by physicist Neil Johnson from the University of Miami, show that attacks by groups such as the Taliban or Hezbollah may seem sporadic, they e ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Astronomers find pristine clouds of primordial gas from the early Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, astronomers have found pristine clouds of the primordial gas that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang. The composition of the gas matches theoretical predictions, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Social security numbers can be predicted with public information, researchers find

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial data bases, or online social networks can be used to routinely predict most — ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Robots Reveal Insights into Evolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an ironic twist to our understanding of life, robots may offer a greater degree of realism for studying some of the intricacies of natural selection and evolution than real organisms offer. ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 22 feature

Simulating strongly correlated fermions opens the door to practical superconductor applications

Combining known factors in a new way, theoretical physicists Boris Svistunov and Nikolai Prokof'ev at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with three alumni of their group, have solved an intractable 50-year-old ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Analyzing almost 10 million tweets, research finds public mood can predict Dow days in advance

Measurements of the collective public mood derived from millions of tweets can predict the rise and fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average up to a week in advance with an accuracy approaching 90 percent, ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth (Update 2)

The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe's magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

Light from galaxy clusters confirms theory of relativity

All observations in astronomy are based on light emitted from stars and galaxies and, according to the general theory of relativity, the light will be affected by gravity. At the same time all interpretations ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 29 | with audio podcast