News articles tagged with 'fluctuations'
NIST engineers discover fundamental flaw in transistor theory
— 22 May 2009 13:39 | TechnologyChip manufacturers beware: There's a newfound flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, a phenomenon affecting the electronic on-off switch that makes computer circuits possible.... — full story
Seeing beyond the invisible
— 22 May 2009 12:30 | EnvironmentStudies of climate evolution and the ecology of past-times are often hampered by lost information - lost variables needed to complete the picture have been long thought untraceable... — full story
Southern glaciers grow out of step with North
— 2 May 2009 17:56 | EnvironmentThe vast majority of the world's glaciers are retreating as the planet gets warmer. But a few, including ones south of the equator, in South America and New Zealand, are inching forward... — full story
New models question old assumptions about how many molecules it takes to control cell division
— 25 Feb 2009 12:50 | BiologyA single cell - whether a yeast cell or one of your cells - is exquisitely sensitive to its surroundings. It receives input signals, processes the information, makes decisions, and... — full story
Mystery of twin quasar brightness revealed
— 2 Feb 2009 09:46 | AstronomyVariations in the brightness of the Q0957+561 quasar, also known as the 'twin quasar' due to its duplicated image on Earth, are intrinsic to the entity itself and not caused by the... — full story
Caltech researchers interpret asymmetry in early Universe
— 17 Dec 2008 11:34 | AstronomyThe Big Bang is widely considered to have obliterated any trace of what came before. Now, astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) think that their new theoretical... — full story
Predicting boom and bust ecologies
— 30 Oct 2008 12:16 | EnvironmentThe natural world behaves a lot like the stock market, with periods of relative stability interspersed with dramatic swings in population size and competition between individuals and... — full story
Mechanism for postpartum depression found in mice
— 31 Jul 2008 13:18 | HealthResearchers have pinpointed a mechanism in the brains of mice that could explain why some human mothers become depressed following childbirth. The discovery could lead to improved treatment... — full story
Researchers produce quantum-entangled images
— 12 Jun 2008 23:31 | PhysicsUsing a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and... — full story
The Poincare Dodecahedral Space model gains support to explain the shape of space
— 11 Feb 2008 19:10 | AstronomyAn international team of cosmologists, leaded by a researcher from Paris Observatory, has improved the theoretical pertinence of the Poincare Dodecahedral Space (PDS) topology to explain... — full story