News tagged with transformation

Efficient preparation of a set of potential glycosidase inhibitors

(Phys.org) -- In many biological and pathological processes, glycosidase enzymes attack glycosidic bonds in carbohydrates, glycoproteins, and glycolipids. The ability to modify or block these processes by ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Invisibility cloak that generates virtual images gets closer to realization

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a twist on the concept of an invisibility cloak, researchers have designed a material that not only makes an object invisible, but also generates one or more virtual images in its place. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 6 | with audio podcast feature

Economic growth in China has not meant greater life satisfaction for Chinese people: long-term study

Despite an unprecedented rate of economic growth, Chinese people are less happy overall than they were two decades ago, reveals timely new research from economist Richard Easterlin, one of the founders of the field of "happiness ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

The faster-than-fast Fourier transform

The Fourier transform is one of the most fundamental concepts in the information sciences. It’s a method for representing an irregular signal — such as the voltage fluctuations in the wire that conne ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (30) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Anti-mirror optical illusion could increase LED luminosity and laser power

(PhysOrg.com) -- By making multiple objects appear to look like only one using a "perfect lens," scientists have demonstrated a new optical illusion that could have practical applications in lighting systems. ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

Transformer Pad TF300 a weak replacement for laptop

Asus' new Transformer Pad TF300 is among the first of a new class of convertible devices that are heading toward store shelves.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Transform a ball into a rock -- or make it invisible -- using transformation optics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science fiction and fantasy tales are full of the ability to "cloak" characters with invisibility. Whether it is a spaceship with a cloaking device, or a young wizard with an invisibility ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (13) | comments 7 feature

Physicists turn liquid into solid using an electric field

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have predicted that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials will undergo solidification, forming crystallites at temperature ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Researchers observe structural transformations in single nanocrystals

While a movie about giant robots that undergo structural transformations is breaking box office records this summer, a scientific study about structural transformations within single nanocrystals is breaking ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Low oxygen triggers moth molt

A new explanation for one of nature's most mysterious processes, the transformation of caterpillars into moths or butterflies, might best be described as breathless.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cerium's unusual behaviour

(PhysOrg.com) -- Livermore researchers have found that a crystal of cerium -- the chemical element that can be used for catalysts and fuel additives -- behaves in very unique ways when subjected to high pressures.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Scientists create first free-standing 3-D cloak

Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Plugless Power soon to arrive for electric and hybrid vehicles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evatran, a company from Virginia in the US, has developed a working prototype of a plugless induction charger for electric and hybrid vehicles, and demonstrated the system at this week’s Plug In ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (14) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

First results from RENO: Observation of the weakest neutrino transformation

The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillations (RENO) research team announced the first result of the search for the remaining, most elusive puzzle of the neutrino transformation. They have found disappearance of neutrinos ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Study proves plausibility of new pathway to life's chemical building blocks

For decades, chemists considered a chemical pathway known as the formose reaction the only route for producing sugars essential for life to begin, but more recent research has called into question the plausibility of such ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast