Acoustic devices like mufflers and loudspeakers are all around us. In the design of such devices, computer simulations and numerical optimisation algorithms are becoming increasingly useful in order to shorten the product ...
General Physics
May 27, 2016
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As the old saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, but according to a new study by researchers from Canada and China, birds—or people in this case – also tend to cheat for others in the same social group without ...
Social Sciences
May 27, 2016
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A research group led by Professor Mochida Tomoyuki (Kobe University Graduate School of Science) and PhD student Funasako Yusuke (Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi) has developed a metal-containing compound which transforms ...
Materials Science
May 27, 2016
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The reed, an abundant plant in riverbanks around the world, alters the ground arthropod communities and reduces the body size of these invertebrates in the natural habitats it colonizes, according to a study published in ...
Ecology
May 27, 2016
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A pair of researchers has found a possible explanation for the sudden, mysterious reason that the Mongol army withdrew from Eastern Europe in 1242, just when it seemed poised to take Hungary. In their paper published in the ...
What can you do with a floppy disk these days? Apple retired floppy drives with its original 1998 iMac, PC manufacturer Dell followed suit in 2003 and now they are but a distant memory. But, according to a recent US government ...
Computer Sciences
May 27, 2016
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Bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres continue to puzzle researchers. When recently a team of astronomers led by Paolo Molaro of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory in Italy, conducted observations of these features, they ...
Space Exploration
May 27, 2016
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They're back. After a wintertime largely devoid of evening worlds, the planets are once again in the evening sky. First Jupiter, then Mars have crossed opposition over the past few months, and now Saturn is set to take center ...
Space Exploration
May 27, 2016
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Ever since Lemaitre and Hubble's first proposed it in the 1920s, scientists and astronomers have been aware that the universe is expanding. And from these observations, cosmological theories like the Big Bang Theory and the ...
Astronomy
May 27, 2016
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PayPal is the latest company to join a long list to ditch support for the "fringe" phone operating systems: Microsoft's Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Amazon's Fire OS. This decision comes on the heels of Microsoft's announcement ...
Software
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