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Greg Egan recently designed another of his universes. This one is named "Orthogonal" and is based on symmetry between space and time (instead of the Minkowski space-time the world is based on the 4-dimensional Euclidean space ( Read more... )

В литературе встречается следующее удивительное утверждение: разброс скорости многих химических реакций (например, разброс скорости изменения цвета лакмусовой бумажки при измерении кислотности эталонного раствора фиксированной кислотности) уменьшается с увеличением солнечной активности ( Read more... )

The bacterial communication phenomenon that we study is called quorum sensing, which is a process that allows bacteria to communicate using secreted chemical signaling molecules called autoinducers. This process enables a population of bacteria to collectively regulate gene expression and, therefore, behavior.So a population of bacteria can behave ( Read more... )

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http://nature-wonder.livejournal.com/167564.html

В том же журнале хорошая выдержка из беседы с К.Еськовым про эволюцию:

http://nature-wonder.livejournal.com/167238.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19193896

via http://community.livejournal.com/free_times/181822.html

It looks like a real scientist will be our next Secretary of Energy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu

(Director of the Berkeley Lab, Nobel Prize for laser cooling and trapping of atoms)

Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long as 16 years (no cryopreservation ( Read more... )

MIT -- Special Lecture Series on

Statistical Physics of Algorithms (or Belief Propagation and Beyond)

Michael (Misha) Chertkov (Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory ( Read more... )