Swarming locusts interact with at least two of their neighbours when aligning themselves in order to march in the same direction, says new research led by our mathematicians.
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2015
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November 1 marked the end of Major League Baseball in 2015, as NBA basketball launched its 2015-2016 regular season on October 27. If you're following the games this year, you may want to watch for patterns predicted by recent ...
Mathematics
Nov 3, 2015
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A team of researchers has mapped out a universal dynamic that explains the production and distribution of proteins in a cell, a process that varies in detail from protein to protein and cell to cell, but that always results ...
General Physics
Oct 29, 2015
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A Japanese researcher has investigated the contributions of active deformation dynamics of cell nuclei using the Brownian motion theory.
General Physics
Oct 14, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the Institute of Industrial Physics and Chemistry in France, has modified an explanation for the formation and spacing of high altitude snow formations known as penitents. In their ...
Restaurants often have their best specials in the middle of the week as a way to increase business on their slowest days. By evening out the flow of customers, carefully timed sale prices can reduce fluctuations in demand. ...
A lot of problems associated with the mixing of the liquid in the microchannels could be solved via proper organization of the inhomogeneous slip on the walls of these channels. This is the conclusion of a joint group of ...
General Physics
Jun 4, 2015
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Understanding how turbulence can alter the shape and course of a flock of birds, a swarm of insects or even an algal bloom could help us to better predict their impact on the environment.
General Physics
May 26, 2015
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The famous sunspots on the surface of the sun result from the dynamics of strong magnetic fields, and their numbers are an important indicator of the state of activity on the sun. At the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the ...
Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2015
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If a water repellent substrate is immersed in water containing dissolved gas, tiny bubbles can form on the immersed body. These so called surface nanobubbles emerge because the surrounding liquid wants to lose its gas, similar ...
Nanophysics
Apr 21, 2015
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