In a new study, experts determined that a measured of chaos called entropy explains the behavior of water at the nanoscale, where the liquid tends to flow spontaneously through carbon nanotubes. In theory, this should not happen, because the vast network of hydrogen bonds that permeates water is extremely stable. Bre... |
12 August 2011
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All the people in the world may have originally had a common language, reveal experts who recently analyzed the amount of information contained in arrangements of words. They explain that this amount is consistent across Earth's languages. The correlation even holds true when taking into account languages that h... |
18 May 2011
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One of the basic properties of matter, and the thing that arguably made life on Earth possible, is the fact that its atoms and molecules tend to come together, and structure themselves in various patterns. However, despite all odds, these patterns are not always symmetrical, as one could expect. In fact, at times, en... |
29 January 2010
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Like every aspect of our civilization, the Sun, galaxies, and the Universe in general work on fuel. In the case of stars, this is represented by hydrogen and helium fuels. When a car, or a star, runs out of whatever is powering it, it stops, or turns into a black hole. A new series of calculations has revealed that t... |
27 January 2010
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Scientists have been trying for a very long time to come to terms with some of the most basic properties of the Universe. In spite of the term “basic,” they are actually fairly difficult to discover, and so a group of experts is currently proposing a new way of approaching this issue. According to Raphael... |
18 January 2010
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Entropy is a concept that is usually utilized as a measure of disorder within a system. When looking into its definition more closely, it's revealed that it actually refers to the number of random ways a system can develop in, given enough time. The idea is widely used in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics... |
10 December 2009
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The concept of entropy refers to a quantity used to measure chaos. Entropy has been on the rise in the Universe ever since the Big Bang, and a new scientific study, taking into account the latest astronomical data, has evidenced that massive black holes at the center of galaxies are the largest contributors to this i... |
2 October 2009
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In a new scientific study, which analyzed human reaction times to various events, it was established that the connections inside the human brain only transported about 60 bits of information per second. The investigation relied on century-old knowledge, which held that the brain's processing speed was intimately... |
25 August 2009
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All matter in the universe is characterized by a number called entropy, which measures the disorder inside an object. Probabilistic calculations reveal that all the stars in the universe might contribute with about 1E+79 units of entropy, or 1 followed by 79 zeros, if you want. However, a recently published study sho... |
19 January 2008
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