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  The growth of physics research, and its changing impact on our lives Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 15:14 -0600
    Re: The growth of physics research, and its changing impact on our lives jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-14 21:38 +0000

#539170 — The growth of physics research, and its changing impact on our lives

The growth of physics research, and its changing impact on our lives
> http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2015/12/the-growth-of-physics-research-and-its-changing-impact-on-our-lives/


> Solution-​​driven inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research—it’s a focus of work
> at North­eastern. Now a cover story in Nature Physics by researcher
> Roberta Sinatra and her col­leagues pro­vides data-​​based sup­port
> for its exten­sive reach. Sinatra, an asso­ciate research sci­en­tist
> in the lab of Albert-​​László Barabási, the Robert Gray Dodge
> Pro­fessor of Net­work Sci­ence, tracked cita­tions in the Web of
> Sci­ence data­base for physics-​​related papers span­ning the past
> cen­tury. She and her team dis­cov­ered expo­nen­tial growth in the
> field as well as an increasing inter­dis­ci­pli­nary thrust:
> straight-​​ahead arti­cles about, say, the prop­er­ties of matter had
> given way to sub­fields as diverse as econo­physics and chaos
> theory.
>
> We asked Sinatra how that broad­ening influence—of physics and other
> sci­en­tific disciplines—might affect our lives.


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> The growth of physics research, and its changing impact on our lives
>> http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2015/12/the-growth-of-physics-research-and-its-changing-impact-on-our-lives/
> 
> 
>> Solution-​​driven inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research—it’s a focus of work
>> at North­eastern. Now a cover story in Nature Physics by researcher
>> Roberta Sinatra and her col­leagues pro­vides data-​​based sup­port
>> for its exten­sive reach. Sinatra, an asso­ciate research sci­en­tist
>> in the lab of Albert-​​László Barabási, the Robert Gray Dodge
>> Pro­fessor of Net­work Sci­ence, tracked cita­tions in the Web of
>> Sci­ence data­base for physics-​​related papers span­ning the past
>> cen­tury. She and her team dis­cov­ered expo­nen­tial growth in the
>> field as well as an increasing inter­dis­ci­pli­nary thrust:
>> straight-​​ahead arti­cles about, say, the prop­er­ties of matter had
>> given way to sub­fields as diverse as econo­physics and chaos
>> theory.
>>
>> We asked Sinatra how that broad­ening influence—of physics and other
>> sci­en­tific disciplines—might affect our lives.
 
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