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Mathematics Dec 19, 2013

Tipsy tottering, sunlight and the smell of coffee: It's all random

The warmth on your face, the scenic view outside – such delights are delivered to you by countless photons from the sun. But believe it or not, these photons move in much the same way as an inebriated person wandering home ...

Social Sciences Nov 19, 2013

Peering into the future: How cities grow

Migration patterns into and out of cities are the result of millions of individual decisions, which in turn are affected by thousands of factors like economics, location, politics, security, aesthetics, sentiments and others. ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Oct 25, 2013

Researchers find boomerang shaped colloid does not conform to Brownian motion

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº) —A team of researchers working at Kent State University in Ohio has found that a custom shaped colloid that resembles a boomerang does not conform to Brownian motion, at least in the short term. In their paper ...

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 ...

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