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How community structure affects the resilience of a network
18 hours ago report
Network theory is a method for analyzing the connections between nodes in a system. One of the most compelling aspects of network theory is that discoveries related to one field, such as cellular biology, can be abstracted ...
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The photoelectric effect in stereo
20 hours ago
In the photoelectric effect, a photon ejects an electron from a material. Researchers at ETH have now used attosecond laser pulses to measure the time evolution of this effect in molecules. From their results they can deduce ...
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CWI researchers make power grid more reliable with mathematics
21 hours ago
Researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, discovered how large fluctuations in solar and wind energy, combined with the ...
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When fluid flows almost as fast as light—with quantum rotation
21 hours ago
Quark-gluon plasma is formed as a result of high-energy collisions of heavy ions. After a collision, for a dozen or so yoctoseconds (10-24 seconds), this most perfect of all known fluids undergoes rapid hydrodynamic expansion ...
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What causes the sound of a dripping tap—and how do you stop it?
22 hours ago
Scientists have solved the riddle behind one of the most recognisable, and annoying, household sounds: the dripping tap. And crucially, they have also identified a simple solution to stop it, which most of us already have ...
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Water can be very dead, electrically speaking
Jun 21, 2018
In a study published in Science this week, the researchers describe the dielectric properties of water that is only a few molecules thick. Such water was previously predicted to exhibit a reduced electric response but it ...
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Einstein proved right in another galaxy
Jun 21, 2018
An international team of astronomers have made the most precise test of gravity outside our own solar system.
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Researchers engineer bacteria to exhibit stochastic Turing patterns
Jun 21, 2018
How did the zebra get its stripes, or the leopard its spots? Mankind has been trying to answer such questions since our earliest recorded days, and they resonate throughout the extant mythologies and folklores of an earlier ...
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'Flamingo:' High-powered microscopy coming to a scientist near you
Jun 21, 2018
Modern microscopy has given scientists a front-row seat to living, breathing biology in all its technicolor glory. But access to the best technologies can be spotty.
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Physicists show that it is impossible to mask quantum information in correlations
Jun 21, 2018 feature
Information is typically stored in physical systems, such as memory devices. But in a new study, physicists have investigated an alternative way to store and hide information, which is by storing it only in the quantum correlations ...
