by admin | Oct 6, 2017 | engineering and tech, physical sciences
Fluid mechanics is the study of the flows within liquids, gases and plasmas, and the forces that act upon them. Applications involving fluid mechanics are vast, ranging from chemical engineering to astrophysics, and so an accurate understanding is essential for future... 
by admin | Sep 25, 2017 | biology, engineering and tech
How do you determine important scientific links when you are flooded by new publications each day? Professor Julio Collado-Vides and his team at the National University of Mexico appear to have the answer. Putting Life in Context Professor Julio Collado-Vides,... 
by admin | Sep 20, 2017 | engineering and tech, physical sciences
Professor Amnon Besser of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and his colleagues are exploring p-adic numbers – one of the most difficult areas of number theory – in order to solve long-standing open problems bridging several fields of mathematics. Mapping P-adic... 
by admin | Sep 5, 2017 | engineering and tech, physical sciences
Is it possible for computational modelling to become sufficiently accurate as to replace experiments? This is one of the many questions that Dr Kirk Peterson and his team at Washington State University are working towards answering. As a world-leader in developing... 
by admin | Aug 4, 2017 | earth and environment, engineering and tech
As renewable energy sources such as wind, wave, and solar become more ubiquitous, the importance of understanding the detailed mechanisms of their operation is essential. In particular, with a dynamic and turbulent energy source like wind, an accurate way of modelling... 
by admin | Jul 12, 2017 | earth and environment, engineering and tech, physical sciences
Professor Jeffrey Forbes and his team at the University of Colorado use data from multiple satellites and global modelling to determine how terrestrial weather affects the near-Earth space environment. Exploring How the Lower Atmosphere Influences Space Weather...