News tagged with random motion

Faster protein folding achieved through nanosecond pressure jump

A new method to induce protein folding by taking the pressure off of proteins is up to 100 times faster than previous methods, and could help guide more accurate computer simulations for how complex proteins ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Light pulses take a quantum walk

Tourists who drift aimlessly during a sightseeing tour are moving randomly - just like electrons that move from one atom to the next. To obtain a better understanding of these random motions it is often useful ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover critical rotational motion in cells

In a study that holds major implications for breast cancer research as well as basic cell biology, scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a rotational motion ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanotechnologists must take lessons from nature

It's common knowledge that the perfect is the enemy of the good, but in the nanoscale world, perfection can act as the enemy of the best.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast