Search results for author:(Stuart Mason Dambrot)

General Physics Aug 7, 2012

Sets & the city: World Science Festival 2012, New York-style (Part 1 of 2)

(Phys.org) -- New York City is the nexus of all things intellectual, cultural and academic. (Being a native New Yorker, I admit being somewhat biased.) Either way, one highlight in this complex and vibrant metropolis is the ...

Superconductivity Jun 19, 2012

Copper fields: Quantum criticality in high-temperature cuprate superconductors

(Phys.org) -- Superconductivity is a complex phenomenon that is considerably more intricate than many casual observers realize. This caveat applies equally to the subset of this research known as high-temperature superconductivity ...

Environment May 28, 2012

Country cousins: Climate connections and land urbanization dynamics

(Phys.org) -- What’s in a name? Quite a bit in climate science, where the term teleconnection refers not to digital communications, but rather to a recurring and persistent large-scale pattern of pressure and circulation ...

General Physics May 23, 2012

Good vibes: Coupling electron spin states and carbon nanotube vibrations

(Phys.org) -- An electron’s spin is separate from its motion, and is suitable for use in both highly-precise magnetic sensing as well as a qubit in quantum computing. Recently, scientists at the University of Konstanz ...

Biotechnology May 18, 2012

Friendly Fungi: Elucidating the fungal biosynthesis of stipitatic acid

(Phys.org) -- In a tale worthy of Sherlock Holmes, scientists in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol, UK have solved a biochemical mystery that had previously proven elusive for 70 years: How the fungus Talaromyces ...

General Physics Apr 28, 2012

The shape of things, illuminated: Metamaterials, surface topology and light-matter interactions

(Phys.org) -- Finding new connections between different disciplines leads to new – and sometimes useful – ideas. That’s exactly what happened when scientists in the Department of Physics, Queens College, ...

Evolution Apr 18, 2012

Adam's rib, revisited: Evolutionary divergence of mammalian sex chromosomes

(Phys.org)—Males and females... Mars and Venus... XY and XX chromosomes—all are common memes. At the same time, the evolution of therian (placental and marsupial) sex chromosomes is less widely understood. More to the point, ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 30, 2012

Noxious nanotech: Water-borne nanomaterials promote multidrug-resistance gene transfer

(PhysOrg.com) -- The arms race between effective antibiotic prophylaxis and closely related strains or species of bacteria is continually escalating. Bacteria can quickly develop genetic resistance to a range of antibiotic ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 16, 2012

New insights into ancient life: Chromosome segregation in Archaea

(PhysOrg.com) -- The effort to classify life into various groups has been a bumpy ride. Prior to the 1900s, living things were usually pegged as either plants or animals – period. By the middle of the 20th century, ...

Bio & Medicine Mar 12, 2012

Modeling the miniscule: High-resolution design of nanoscale biomolecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- A key element of both biotechnology and nanotechnology is – perhaps unsurprisingly – computational modeling. Frequently, in silico nanostructure design and simulation precedes actual experimentation. ...

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