The world of game theory is currently on fire. In May, Freeman Dyson at Princeton University and William Press at the University of Texas announced that they had discovered a previously unknown strategy for the game of prisoner's dilemma which guarantees one player a better outcome than the other.
That's a monumental surprise. Theorists have studied Prisoner's Dilemma for decades, using it as a model for the emergence of co-operation in nature. This work has had a profound impact on disciplines such as economics, evolutionary biology and, of course, game theory itself. The new result will have impact in all these areas and more.
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Red Wine, Tartaric Acid And The Secret Of Superconductivity - Technology Review - 2 views
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Last year, physicists discovered that red wine can turn certain materials into superconductors. Now they've found that Beaujolais works best and think they know why -- I soo knew it !!!
How The Cost of Computation Restricts The Processes of Life - Technology Review - 1 views
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"That's why silicon chips operate at temperatures hot enough to fry eggs." I stopped reading after this sentence... is the remaining part of the article equally scientifically (in)accurate?
How to Build A Space-Time Crystal - Technology Review - 1 views
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Nobody has ever seen a space-time crystal let alone made one. But now physicists think they know how
Super Physics Smackdown: Relativity v Quantum Mechanics...In Space - Technology Review - 2 views
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The only way to study the conflict between relativity and quantum mechanics is to test them over enormous distances in space. And physicists are already making plans
Higgs Boson May Be An Imposter, Say Particle Physicists - Technology Review - 0 views
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"At least two other particles could be masquerading as the God particle, according to a new analysis of the data from CERN" As I said.. the press always tends to exaggerate...
Scientific History and the Lessons for Today's Emerging Ideas - Technology Review - 1 views
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A better understanding of the scientific turkeys of the 19th century may provide a stark warning about the value of mainstream scientific thought today.
From Bench to Bunker - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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How a 1960s discovery in neuroscience spawned a military project
How To Make A Metamaterial That Expands Under Pressure And Contracts In Tensi... - 0 views
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Treating materials like complex networks leads to substances with extraordinary counterintuitive properties, say physicists
Computer Scientists Reproduce The Evolution of Evolvability - Technology Review - 1 views
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Simulation explains the origin of one of nature's most important organising principles
Special Relativity And The Curious Physics of Chronology - Technology Review - 0 views
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Einstein showed that two unrelated events can appear in any order depending on your point of view. Now physicists have discovered the chronologies of three events, and more
The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory - Technology Review - 2 views
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Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1208.2666: Winning isn't everything: Evolutionary stability of Zero Determinant strategies
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for Press & Dyson's paper check: http://edge.org/conversation/on-iterated-prisoner-dilemma http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206569109
How to Entangle Humans (contd) - Technology Review - 1 views
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If physicists are ever to entangle humans they'll need to understand the role that noise plays in the experiments. Now they've carried out the first tests to find out
The Counterintuitive Physics of Tarzan Swings - Technology Review - 1 views
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Room Temperature Superconductivity Found in Graphite Grains - Technology Review - 1 views
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Water-soaked grains of carbon superconduct at room temperature, claim a team of physicists from Germany
Physicist Derives Laws of Thermodynamics For Life Itself - Technology Review - 2 views
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The laws of thermodynamics must apply to self-replicating systems. Now one physicist has worked out how
Space Station Spin-Off Could Protect Mars-Bound Astronauts From Radiation - Technology ... - 0 views
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Superconducting technology developed for the International Space Station could protect humans on the way to the asteroids or Mars. But will it be worth the cost?
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