News tagged with timing mechanism

Chromosome number changes in yeast

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have uncovered the evolutionary mechanisms that have caused increases or decreases in the numbers of chromosomes in a group of yeast species during the last 100-150 million years. The ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Time travel theory avoids grandfather paradox

(PhysOrg.com) -- The possibility of going back in time only to kill your ancestors and prevent your own birth has posed a serious problem for potential time travelers, not even considering the technical details ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (55) | comments 96 | with audio podcast report

Physicist Proposes Solution to Arrow-of-Time Paradox

(PhysOrg.com) -- Entropy can decrease, according to a new proposal - but the process would destroy any evidence of its existence, and erase any memory an observer might have of it. It sounds like the plot ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (80) | comments 108 feature

Brain cell mechanism for decision making also underlies judgment about certainty

(PhysOrg.com) -- Countless times a day people judge their confidence in a choice they are about to make -- that they now can safely turn left at this intersection, that they aren't sure of their answer on ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Venus, the planet of broken dreams

When Venus next week eclipses Earth, an event that will not occur again for more than a century, millions of skygazers may have romantic thoughts about our closest neighbour and its twilight beauty.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Keeping up with embryogenesis: New microscope lets users track individual cells as they move, divide

(Medical Xpress) -- The transformation of a fertilized egg into a functioning animal requires thousands of cell divisions and intricate rearrangements of those cells. That process is captured with unprecedented ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 03, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Intel lines up 14 Ivy Bridge processors

(Phys.org) -- A new lineup of 14 Ivy Bridge processors are out of the bag from Intel. Thursday’s announcement by Intel involves new processors for mobile computers and desktops, but special attention ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 02, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Bursty behaviour found to have similar features across complex systems

Several complex systems live in periods of short bursts of high activity followed by long uneventful intermissions. This phenomenon called burstiness can be modelled and predicted with mathematical algorithms. Research of ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Homing in on Higgs: Michigan researchers predict summer discovery (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Whether the Higgs boson exists could be settled by the end of summer, say University of Michigan physicists involved in the search for the missing piece of particle physics' Standard Model.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Exploring Mars in the Austrian Alps

In the largest ice caves on Earth, spacesuits and remote-controlled planetary rovers were for the first time tested in a five-day odyssey in the Alps designed to mimic potential future missions on Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Facebook to let users vote on privacy changes

(AP) — Facebook is letting its nearly 1 billion users vote on changes to its privacy policy.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

New plaster enhances wound healing

(Phys.org) -- Swiss researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a plaster that accelerates wound healing and is easily removed from the wound at any time. Burn victims in particular may profit from this invention ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

We need to talk: How cells communicate to activate notch

During formation of multi-cellular organisms, cells need to talk to each other to make critical decisions as to what kind of cell to become, as well as when and where to become that cell type. The Notch signaling system allows ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UNH to analyze 'bellwether' solar event data from European satellite

When the sun launched a moderate, or M-class, solar flare May 17, 2012, it was still one of the largest eruptions seen since late January when our star began to rouse from an anomalously long quiet period. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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