All-flavour search for neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Milky Way with IceCube/DeepCore
Sarkar, S
European Physical Journal C
volume 76
issue 10
531
(01 Sep 2016)
Plants use many strategies to disperse their seeds, but among the most fascinating are exploding seed pods. Scientists had assumed that the energy to power these explosions was generated through the seed pods deforming as they dried out, but in the case of ‘popping cress’ (Cardamine hirsuta) this turns out not to be so. These seed pods don’t wait to dry before they explode.
F is for Fourier Transform by Aled Walker.
Glioblastoma is an aggressive form of brain tumour, which is characterised by life expectancies of less than 2 years from diagnosis and currently has no cure. The only intervention available to a patient is having the infected area of their brain cut away as soon as the tumour cells are observed.
Developmental environment effects on sexual selection in male and female drosophila melanogaster
Morimoto Borges, J
Pizzari, T
Wigby, S
PLoS One
volume 11
issue 5
(01 Jan 2016)
What were the causes of the crisis of 2008? New research by Oxford Mathematicians Doyne Farmer, Christoph Aymanns, Vincent W.C. Tan and colleague Fabio Caccioli from University College London shows that managing risk using the procedure recommended by Basel II (the worldwide recommendations on banking regulation), which is called Value at Risk, may have played a central role.