Because of their peculiarities, black holes have been extensively studied over the past few decades. They are extremely dense blobs of matter, the remains of imploded massive stars, that act on the matter around them via immense gravitational forces. They also distort space and time, and “eat up” photons,... |
2 August 2010
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For the first time ever, experts have discovered a form of nanoscale symmetry underlying solid state matter. The finding is of tremendous proportions, especially when considering the fact that this symmetry shows all the attributes and traits of the “golden ratio,” the famous concept from paintings and ar... |
8 January 2010
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When a massive star reaches the end of its burning cycle, it becomes unable to sustain nuclear fusion all on its own, and also exhausts all of its hydrogen fuel. When this happens, the object sheds the outer layers of its atmosphere, all the way to the core, in a violent explosion called a supernova. Classifying the ... |
18 December 2009
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undoubtedly the most ambitious science project ever undertaken by people. Its purpose is to look directly at the conditions that led to the formation of everything around us, and provide a firm confirmation for the Standard Model as well. But, other than the unfounded talk of black ... |
12 November 2009
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As it was somewhat expected, given this year's debates over various quantum particles topics, but mainly those related to CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded yesterday for groundbreaking discoveries in the field of quantum physics. Thus, it was handed to some researchers t... |
8 October 2008
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Physical beauty is something connected to your genes. Researches linked it to body shape, facial proportions and symmetry. Estrogen (female sex hormone) load has been linked to feminine face and body ratios. Women with waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) around 0.7 (0.67-1.18) are most desirable to men, while a 0.8 to 1.0 WHR i... |
30 November 2007
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There's no such thing as perfect symmetry. Indeed, our genes encode for a biological program that should make us develop in a perfectly symmetric organism. But the body has to fight from the very start to achieve the perfect condition, called homeostasis. In this fight, there are many 'obstacles', such... |
13 November 2007
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Attraction is more than looks: it combines smell, hearing (voice) and the visual clues. Some are at the subconscious level, driving us towards a person without being able to explain it clearly. Biology dominates us. Even before being born, it is already determined how attractive we will be. 1.Symmetry. Even at the st... |
7 September 2007
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Quasicrystals are weird structures, aperiodic structures (aperiodic = lack of translational symmetry, which means that a shifted copy will never match exactly its original) that differ from crystals by lacking the regular repeating structure of crystal structures. The first officially reported case of what came to b... |
15 May 2007
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A team of 19 mathematicians has succeeded in mapping E-8, a vast complex number invented more than a century ago. The 248-dimensional structure took four years of work and generated more data than the Human Genome Project. E8 belongs to the "Lie group", invented by the 19th Century Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie ... |
19 March 2007
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