News articles tagged with 'interactions'
Yale researchers find key 'conductor' of nature's synchronicity
— 23 Jul 2009 16:25 | BiologySynchronicity in nature is seen in beating hearts, the flashing of fireflies' lights, the ebb and flow of infectious disease - and the simultaneous rise and fall of populations across... — full story
Close social ties make baboons better mothers, study finds
— 11 Jun 2009 11:21 | BiologyBaboons whose mothers have strong relationships with other females are much more likely to survive to adulthood than baboons reared by less social mothers, according to a new study... — full story
Caltech and UCSD researchers shed light on how proteins find their shapes
— 24 Feb 2009 00:02 | BiologyResearchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have brought together UCSD theoretical modelling and Caltech experimental... — full story
Racial tension in a 'split-second'
— 18 Dec 2008 11:54 | HealthInterracial and interethnic interactions can often be awkward and stressful for members of both majority and minority groups. People bring certain expectations to their interactions... — full story
A microscale system to study frustration in buckled monolayers of microspheres at Penn
— 18 Dec 2008 11:12 | PhysicsA team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has demonstrated a simple system based on micron-sized spheres in water to study and control geometric frustration. Their research, published... — full story
Quantum simulator for complex electronic materials
— 5 Dec 2008 01:48 | TechnologyThe design of new materials with specific properties is a difficult and important challenge in physics and chemistry. Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman in 1982 therefore suggested... — full story
Seeing red - in the number 7
— 23 Oct 2008 13:22 | HealthHypnosis can induce synaesthetic experiences - where one sense triggers the involuntary use of another - according to a new study by UCL (University College London) researchers... — full story
Surface tension drives segregation within cell mixtures
— 6 Oct 2008 22:08 | PhysicsWhat does a mixture of two different kinds of cells have in common with a mixture of oil and water? The same basic force causes both mixtures to separate into two distinct regions.... — full story
What's the difference between a human and a fruit fly?
— 13 May 2008 12:29 | BiologyFruit flies are dramatically different from humans not in their number of genes, but in the number of protein interactions in their bodies, according to scientists who have developed... — full story
What's bugging locusts?
— 9 May 2008 10:39 | BiologySince ancient times, locust plagues have been viewed as one of the most spectacular events in nature. In seemingly spontaneous fashion, as many as 10 billion critters can suddenly swarm... — full story