UAB scientists discover the origin of a mysterious physical force
... the water molecules have a remarkable capacity to organise themselves into complex structures that are strongly orientated in such a way as to cancel out the electric field, and on some occasions, to reverse it. This abnormal behaviour was discovered by the same researchers and published in Physical Review L...Bacteria which sense the Earth's magnetic field
...c field. Until now, it was not clear how the cells organise magnetosomes into a stable chain, against their physical tendency to collapse by magnetic attraction. But using modern molecular-genetic and imaging processes, researchers from the Max Planck Institue for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and Max Planck ...Infants can organise visual information at just four months
... that, at just four months old, babies are able to organise visual information in at least three different way...h was designed to test whether infants are able to organise visual stimuli into groups based on similar attributes: brightness, shape, and proximity. To take pa...Living laboratory found on shoreline statues
...s of communities on intertidal shores. We hope to organise collaboration with marine scientists in New York to follow up our research findings in the UK." ......the Astbury Centre in Leeds, and they will jointly organise a workshop on Mathematical Virology at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in August 2007. Dr Twarock’s group will be part of the York Centre of Complex Systems Analysis (YCCSA), including biologists, mathematicians and computer sc...