A team of researchers from two Spanish universities, UPM and URJC, in collaboration with MIT researchers, has developed a mathematical model that assesses the competition between both legacy and low-cost airlines, and high-speed ...
Economics & Business
May 24, 2017
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Have you ever seen a drop of water navigate a maze? It's possible thanks to the same phenomenon that lets you know if a griddle is hot enough for pancake batter. Water droplets that dance and skitter across a hot surface ...
Condensed Matter
May 16, 2017
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Forget high-speed cameras capturing 100 000 images per second. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has developed a camera that can film at a rate equivalent to five trillion images per second, or events as short ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 28, 2017
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The archer fish is arguably the ninja of the aquatic world, known for its stealth-like, arrow-straight aim while shooting down unsuspecting prey. Once the fish has sighted its target, it can spit jets of water to dislodge ...
Ecology
Apr 19, 2017
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Federal regulators are letting Charter out of a requirement that would have forced it to compete with other broadband providers and possibly cut prices.
Telecom
Apr 3, 2017
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The surface tension of a liquid is a measure of the cohesive forces that hold the molecules together. It is responsible for a water drop assuming a spherical shape and for the effects of surfactants to produce bubbles and ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 3, 2017
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Every so often the sun emits an explosive burst of charged particles that makes its way to Earth and often wreaks havoc on power grids, aircraft and satellite systems. When clouds of high-speed charged particles come racing ...
Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2017
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With honeybee colony health wavering and researchers trying to find technological ways of pollinating plants in the future, a new Georgia Tech study has looked at how the insects do their job and manage to stay clean.
General Physics
Mar 28, 2017
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Our muscles are amazing structures. With the trigger of a thought, muscle filaments slide past each other and bundles of contracting fibers pull on the bones moving our bodies. The triggered stretching behavior of muscle ...
Materials Science
Jan 31, 2017
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Constant jostling for precious commodities—money, oil, high-speed Internet access, our morning coffee—shapes the world we live in.
Biochemistry
Jan 30, 2017
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