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Nash's beautiful mind pre-empted million-dollar puzzle

NewScientist/Fysica - di, 21/02/2012 - 18:19

In recently declassified letters, Nobel laureate John Nash penned ideas about cryptography and computational complexity decades before their time

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Harnessing the quantum power of empty space

NewScientist/Fysica - ma, 20/02/2012 - 11:43

The elusive Casimir effect suggests we could use vacuum energy to move objects and make stuff – but can something really come from nothing?

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How fresco-wrecking salty towers build themselves

NewScientist/Fysica - zo, 19/02/2012 - 11:00

Tiny coral-like formations of salt sometimes sprout up on brickwork, and now researchers know why – which could help save delicate frescoes

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Sterile neutrinos leave ghostly fingerprints on cosmos

NewScientist/Fysica - do, 16/02/2012 - 14:21

Hypothetical particles that have been playing hide-and-seek with physicists for decades may finally be stepping into view

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The ups and downs in the search for sterile neutrinos

NewScientist/Fysica - do, 16/02/2012 - 12:15

Physicists have had a tumultuous love affair with the hypothetical particle, as this timeline shows

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Quantum dots control brain cells for the first time

NewScientist/Fysica - di, 14/02/2012 - 16:50

Using quantum dots to generate brain signals offers new potential for treating blindness, Alzheimer's and even depression

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LHC boosts energy to snag Higgs – and superpartners

NewScientist/Fysica - ma, 13/02/2012 - 18:57

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider hope that raising the energy of collisions still further will settle the question of the elusive Higgs particle

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Web freedoms fuel 'academic spring' journal protest

NewScientist/Fysica - ma, 13/02/2012 - 17:22

A group of mathematicians are boycotting publisher Elsevier over the cost of its journals and support for controversial US legislation

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Seven equations that rule your world

NewScientist/Fysica - ma, 13/02/2012 - 13:44

A truly revolutionary equation can change human existence more than all the great leaders of history. Meet the mathematical masters of the universe

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Bionic butterfly wings are ultimate heat sensors

NewScientist/Fysica - zo, 12/02/2012 - 19:00

The same properties that make Morpho butterfly wings iridescent could help them detect inflammation in people

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Molecules from scratch without the fiendish physics

NewScientist/Fysica - vr, 10/02/2012 - 14:27

A suite of artificial intelligence algorithms may become the ultimate chemistry set by predicting the properties of molecules that have never been made

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What the latest LHC revelations say about the Higgs

NewScientist/Fysica - do, 09/02/2012 - 17:34

Despite having no new data, the world's largest particle smasher has released fresh analyses shedding some light on this most wanted of particles

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LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory

NewScientist/Fysica - wo, 08/02/2012 - 12:02

A small satellite that will measure whether Earth drags space-time as it spins launched from French Guiana today on a new European Space Agency rocket

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Asteroid orbits modelled in a single atom

NewScientist/Fysica - za, 04/02/2012 - 11:00

The model of atoms as mini solar systems was supplanted by quantum fuzziness – now atoms have been forced to act more like the classical systems

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Slow graphene down, speed computers up

NewScientist/Fysica - do, 02/02/2012 - 20:00

Graphene is hailed for its astonishing conductivity but a way to kill this easy flow of electrons brings superfast computers closer

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Earth in for bumpy ride as solar storms hit

NewScientist/Fysica - wo, 01/02/2012 - 19:00

Technology makes our planet more vulnerable to solar outbursts than ever before. What are the risks to Earthlings as the sun gears up for peak activity?

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