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Nanomaterials Jan 6, 2011

Researchers settle argument over mobility of flexible filaments (w/ Video)

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- Theo Odijk, you win. The professor of biotechnology at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has a new best friend in Rice University's Matteo Pasquali.

Cell & Microbiology Oct 12, 2010

Cellular traffic: Modeling shows that factors beyond crowding affect how molecules interact within cells

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- Using large-scale computer simulations, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have identified the most important factors affecting how molecules move through the crowded environment inside living ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Sep 8, 2010

The dance of hot nanoparticles

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- "Brownian motion is a very old concept," Klaus Kroy tells Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com. "The laws explaining it were formulated more than a century ago by Albert Einstein. However, we are finding some interesting divergences ...

Biochemistry Aug 24, 2010

Visualizing viruses: new research pinpoints tiny invaders

In the war against infectious disease, identifying the culprit is half the battle. Now, research professor Shaopeng Wang and his colleagues from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, describe a new method for ...

Mathematics Jun 29, 2010

Stirring the ocean: Calculating the role of the oceans' swimmers

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- The world's oceans, we know, are constantly shaken and stirred by the winds and the tides and other physical forces of nature. But what about fish and other swimming marine life? Do they stir the ocean, too?

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics May 20, 2010

Âé¶¹ÒùÔºicists prove Einstein wrong with observation of instantaneous velocity in Brownian particles

A century after Albert Einstein said we would never be able to observe the instantaneous velocity of tiny particles as they randomly shake and shimmy, so called Brownian motion, physicist Mark Raizen and his group have done ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Apr 7, 2010

Scientists find errors in hypothesis linking solar flares to global temperature

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- The field of climate science is nothing if not complex, where a host of variables interact with each other in intricate ways to produce various changes. Just like any other area of science, climate science ...

Biochemistry Mar 10, 2010

Behavior of single protein observed in unprecedented detail by Stanford chemists

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers have been able to confine and study an individual protein, one that plays a key role in photosynthesis, without having to pin it down so tightly as to alter its fundamental ...

Quantum Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Mar 10, 2010

Quantum Walk in Laboratory

A team of physicists headed by Christian Roos and Rainer Blatt from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences realize a quantum walk in a quantum system with up to 23 steps. ...

Engineering Feb 26, 2010

Micro-ear lets scientists eavesdrop on the micro-world

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- Acting as a microscope for sound, a new device called a micro-ear could make objects on the micro-scale audible. The device could enable scientists to listen to the sounds that cells and bacteria make as ...

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