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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


Humanoid soccer championship 2012

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 09:21 AM PDT

In a number of recent Hollywood hit films, robots do all kinds of spectacular things, from battling it out in boxing rings to saving the world from alien invaders. Researchers are now helping to bring those futuristic visions a little closer to reality.

Theorem unifies superfluids and other weird materials

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 06:23 AM PDT

Despite physicists' fascination with the weird behavior of materials at extremely low temperatures -- 11 Nobel Prizes have been awarded in the area -- a unified explanation of materials like superfluids and Bose-Einstein condensates remained elusive. Now, physicists have demonstrated that counting the number of Nambu-Goldstone bosons in a material reveals the material's behavior at low temperatures, allowing the prediction of behavior and design of new materials with spooky properties.

More can mean less when it comes to being happier, especially if you are neurotic

Posted: 09 Jun 2012 12:24 PM PDT

New research suggests getting more money may not make you happier, especially if you are neurotic.

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