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General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Sep 13, 2013

To touch the microcosmos

What if you could reach through a microscope to touch and feel the microscopic structures under the lens? In a breakthrough that may usher in a new era in the exploration of the worlds that are a million times smaller than ...

Mathematics Sep 12, 2013

Tracking criminal movement using math: Will the next strike be near or far away?

One way to study criminal behavior and predict a criminal's next move is by analyzing his or her movement. Several mathematical models have addressed this in detail, in particular, the UCLA "burglary hotspot" model, also ...

Materials Science Sep 10, 2013

Motorised microscopic matchsticks move in water with sense of direction

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº) —Chemists, physicists and computer scientists at the University of Warwick have come together to devise a new powerful and very versatile way of controlling the speed and direction of motion of microscopic structures ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jul 26, 2013

Removing complexity layers from the universe's creation

Complicated statistical behaviour observed in complex systems such as early universe can often be understood if it is broken down into simpler ones. Two physicists, Petr Jizba (currently affiliated with the Czech Technical ...

Biochemistry Jun 13, 2013

DNA brings materials to life

DNA-coated colloids have been used to create novel self-assembling materials in a breakthrough experiment by EPFL and University of Cambridge scientists.

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Apr 22, 2013

The emergence of complex behaviors through causal entropic forces

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº) —An ambitious new paper published in Âé¶¹ÒùÔºical Review Letters seeks to describe intelligence as a fundamentally thermodynamic process. The authors made an appeal to entropy to inspire a new formalism that has ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jan 3, 2013

How computers push on the molecules they simulate

Because modern computers have to depict the real world with digital representations of numbers instead of physical analogues, to simulate the continuous passage of time they have to digitize time into small slices. This kind ...

Cell & Microbiology Dec 21, 2012

How molecular transports change gear: Environment determines the motion of motor proteins

The motor protein myosin-V, which hauls molecular cargoes around cells by ratcheting along filaments of actin, switches between two different molecular mechanisms of movement depending on the environment. This finding by ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Nov 2, 2012

Giving fluorescence microscopy new power to study cellular transport

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—The ability of fluorescence microscopy to study labeled structures like cells has now been empowered to deliver greater spatial and temporal resolutions that were not possible before, thanks to a new method developed ...

Nanophysics Oct 31, 2012

Graphene mini-lab

A team of physicists from Europe and South Africa showed that electrons moving randomly in graphene can mimic the dynamics of particles such as cosmic rays, despite travelling at a fraction of their speed, in a paper about ...

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