This week, an international group of scientists is reporting a breakthrough in the effort to characterize the properties of graphene noninvasively while acquiring information about its response to structural strain.
Nanomaterials
Sep 29, 2015
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A statistical analysis of data from 20 industrial countries covering the period 1970 to 2012 suggests housing market pricing cycles—normal, boom and bust phases—have become longer over the last four decades.
Economics & Business
May 1, 2015
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Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in global warming during this period is consistent with natural variations in temperature, according to research by McGill ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 21, 2014
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(Phys.org) —At Los Alamos, a supercomputer epicenter where "big data set" really means something, a data middleware project has achieved a milestone for specialized information organization and storage. The Multi-dimensional ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 2, 2014
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Scientists at the University of Warwick have modelled an outbreak of the bee infection American foulbrood in Jersey, using a technique which could be applied to other honeybee diseases such as European foulbrood and the Varroa ...
Ecology
Sep 16, 2013
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A new statistical analysis shows the world population could reach nearly 11 billion by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report issued June 13. That's about 800 million, or about 8 percent, more than the ...
Social Sciences
Jun 13, 2013
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Twitter's home page features a regularly updated list of topics that are "trending," meaning that tweets about them have suddenly exploded in volume. A position on the list is highly coveted as a source of free publicity, ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 1, 2012
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Mathematicians at the University of York in the UK and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand say they have disproved a widely accepted theory underpinning the operation of complex networks of interactions in the natural ...
Mathematics
Jun 20, 2012
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For the first time, researchers have been able to combine different climate models using spatial statistics - to project future seasonal temperature changes in regions across North America.
Earth Sciences
May 15, 2012
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History has proved time and again that mathematical modelling is no substitute for a telescope (or other data collection device). Nonetheless, some theoreticians have recently put forward a statistical analysis which suggests ...
Astronomy
Aug 1, 2011
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