News tagged with random matrix theory

Vaccines for HIV: A new design strategy

HIV has eluded vaccine-makers for thirty years, in part due to the virus' extreme ability to mutate. Physical scientists and clinical virologists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Ragon Institute ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Discovery could challenge established theory of the nucleus

(PhysOrg.com) -- By analyzing data from experiments performed earlier this decade at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator (ORELA), physicists have made observations that seem to conflict with the widely accepted theory ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (58) | comments 65 | with audio podcast report

Surprising nucleon behavior

Data from DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on neutron interactions with isotopes of platinum contradict a basic assumption underpinning random matrix theory, nuclear physics models and quantum chaos.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2




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Freezing liquids help to predict properties of prime numbers

(Phys.org) -- The same freezing which is responsible for transforming liquids into glasses can help to predict some patterns observed in prime numbers, according to a team of scientists from Queen Mary, University ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Quarks 'swing' to the tones of random numbers

At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN protons crash into each other at incredibly high energies in order to 'smash' the protons and to study the elementary particles of nature - including quarks. Quarks are ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A living aortic valve replacement leads to better survival and quality of life than provided by a dead donor

When a patient needs their aortic valve replacing, using the valve in their own pulmonary artery for the replacement leads to better survival and quality of life than if the aortic valve from a dead donor is used. This is ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists show how a neuron gets its shape

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: When Abraham Lincoln was asked how long a man’s legs should be, he absurdly replied, “Long enough to reach the ground.” Now, by using a new microscopy technique ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Physicists Transmit Light through Opaque Materials

No matter how thick an opaque "scattering material" is, physicists have shown how to weave light through tiny open channels in the material, so that the light passes through on the other side.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (47) | comments 6 weblog

Hunting the elusive L-function

(PhysOrg.com) -- There was a lot of excitement last month about ‘L-functions’. A PhD student in the Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Ce Bian, in collaboration with his supervisor, Dr Andrew ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (37) | comments 0

Scientists find first evidence of a living memory trace

An international team of scientists for the first time has detected a memory trace in a living animal after it has encountered a single, new stimulus. The research, done with honeybees sensing new odors, allows neuroscientists ...

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created Nov 14, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 0


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