Category: Highlights

This week’s gems from the physics arXiv blog: How cricketers get their eye in First light from Keck’s null mode Danger Theory and artificial immune systems Model successfully predicts brain structure

This week’s posts from the physics arXiv blog: Extreme ice and the blues How to reduce extremism? Travel! Australians make interstellar hologram Why silos burst Feline ballistics

…this week’s posts The mysterious volume of a black hole Fractal fingers and zero surface tension Extragalactic meteor spotted over Russia Worm tracking: never lose another nematode Soliton attacks and freak waves

…this week’s posts Cooling with sound Four letter wordistics Listening out for neutrinos Mapping the radioactive heat beneath our feet The shower temperature problem Oranges ‘n’ lemons

This week’s posts on the physics arxiv blog: How to spot a wormhole The puzzle of flyby anomolies The Turing alternatives Information and evolution The bar at the heart of the galaxy

…a round up of this week’s posts: Best of the arXivblog: Breaking the Netflix prize dataset Best of the arXivblog: Why our time dimension is about to become space-like How to predict a brainquake Graphite valley The cold dark matter scrap

Over the holiday period, the physics arxiv blog is re-running the most popular blogs (by page views) of 2007.  This was the one ya like the most [cue drum roll]: Why our time dimension is about to become space-like 9 October It don’t get much weirder than this. The universe is about to lose its…

Over the holiday period, the physics arxiv blog is re-running the most popular blogs (by page views) of 2007. Breaking the Netflix prize dataset 27 November Hell, this is good work. In October last year, Netflix released over 100 million movie ratings made by 500,000 subscribers to their online DVD rental service. The company then…

Over the holiday period, the physics arxiv blog is re-running the most popular blogs (by page views) of 2007. Invasion of the jivin’ nanoshrooms 24 August Convertin’ a constant force into an oscillatin’ one is a useful trick. Ya’ll seen em: gravity-powered pendulums and wind-powered turbines for example, them both set machines a-spinin and a-swingin…

Over the holiday period, the physics arxiv blog is re-running the most popular blogs (by page views) of 2007. Cellphone records reveal new patterns of human activity 29 October Switch yer mobile phone on and it checks into the local network giving your location and the time you were there. The network also records the…