News articles tagged with 'dynamics'
UA scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos
— 9 Oct 2009 12:50 | PhysicsChaotic behaviour is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics…
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…
Herschel and Planck flight dynamics: It really is rocket science
— 11 May 2009 18:36 | AstronomyImagine you are a flight dynamics specialist at ESOC, ESA's European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, on the afternoon of 14 May 2009…
The human brain is on the edge of chaos
— 22 Mar 2009 17:00 | BiologyCambridge-based researchers provide new evidence that the human brain lives 'on the edge of chaos,' at a critical transition point between randomness and order. The study, published…
Engineer devises ways to improve gas mileage
— 18 Mar 2009 16:54 | TechnologyLast summer, it was very expensive to fill up a gas tank when the gasoline price hit close to four dollars a gallon. Transportation by road or air consumes fuel, which not only increases…
What happens when a stone impacts on water
— 2 Feb 2009 09:46 | PhysicsResearchers at the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the University of Seville in Spain have explained the formation…
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…
Observing brain during normal activity
— 11 Dec 2008 11:53 | HealthThe Swartz Centre for Computational Neuroscience at UC San Diego will create a new imagining process to study human body/brain dynamics of subjects engaged in normal activity in ordinary…
Venus comes to life in the ultraviolet and the infrared
— 3 Dec 2008 18:00 | AstronomyA pale dot to the human eye, Venus, Earth's twin planet comes to life in the ultraviolet and the infrared. New data and images from the Venus Express spacecraft reveal a clearer picture…
Scientists invent device that controls, measures dynamics of chemicals in live tissue
— 28 Oct 2008 15:26 | TechnologyMeasuring an electrical current in an organism is pretty straightforward. All you need is an electrode. Measuring the flow of chemicals in cells or live tissue, however, is much more…