One of the many curious properties of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) is that the flow of sound through them is governed by the same equations that...
Chaos Theory Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili In mathematics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain dynamical systems – that is, systems whose states...
Turning a Sphere Inside Out Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili Since its discovery by Stephen Smale in 1958, Smale’s paradox has baffled more than a few mathematicians’ minds...
Dr Robert Nudds and Dr Gareth Dyke point to the obvious but hitherto overlooked fact that modern birds don't offer many clues about how they arrived...