In the space inside a computer chip, where electricity becomes information, there's a scientific frontier. The same frontier can be found inside a cell, where information instead takes the form of chemical concentrations. ...
General Physics
Jun 20, 2018
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Did you ever pass an orchard with branches bursting with flowers and wonder how the trees "know" when to blossom or bear fruit all at the same time? Or perhaps you've walked through the woods, crunching loads of acorns underfoot ...
General Physics
Feb 5, 2018
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A team of scientists at Bilkent has designed the simplest experimental system to date to identify the minimum requirements for the emergence of complexity. Their work is reported in the current issue of Nature Communications.
General Physics
May 1, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Discovering the ways in which many seemingly diverse phenomena are related is one of the overarching goals of scientific inquiry, since universality often allows an insight in one area to be extended to many ...
Inside every living cell, internal structures are continuously moving about. Under a microscope, organelles such as the nucleus, mitochondria, transport vesicles, or even external flagella wobble and twitch. This may happen ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 28, 2016
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Honeybees have been dying in record numbers, threatening the continued production of nutritious foods such as apples, nuts, blueberries, broccoli, and onions. Without bees to pollinate these crops, the environmental ecosystem—and ...
General Physics
Feb 17, 2016
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(Phys.org)—Statistical physics – the branch of physics that solves physical problem by using methods of probability theory and statistics (specifically, mathematical tools for large populations, approximations, and other ...
James Joyce, Julio Cortazar, Marcel Proust, Henryk Sienkiewicz and Umberto Eco. Regardless of the language they were working in, some of the world's greatest writers appear to be, in some respects, constructing fractals. ...
Mathematics
Jan 26, 2016
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A key challenge network scientists face is figuring out how networks break down into communities—for example, different groups of friends in a high school social network or species in a food web.
Computer Sciences
Dec 9, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Tricking someone into trusting you in order to gain something from them is common behavior in both the animal and human worlds. From cuckoo birds that trick other bird species into raising their young, to cunning ...
