startwearingpurple - Slashdot User

Comment ROOT (Score 1) 314

by startwearingpurple on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @02:21PM (#37529370) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia?

FWIW. ROOT is a data-analysis framework/toolbox that was originally developed by a few guys at CERN and is now used all over the work in research. Mostly in fundamental physics, but I believe there are a few companies that use it as well (see the website). The papers application is another interesting example...

I guess gnuplot and xmgrace fall in a similar category. There must be specialised utilties/toolboxes in other fields as well, but I would not know where to look.

Submission + - Frictionless Superfluid Found in Neutron Star Core (sciencedaily.com)

Submitted by intellitech on Thursday February 24, 2011 @09:37AM

intellitech writes: NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered the first direct evidence for a superfluid, a bizarre, friction-free state of matter, at the core of a neutron star. Superfluids created in laboratories on Earth exhibit remarkable properties, such as the ability to climb upward and escape airtight containers. The finding has important implications for understanding nuclear interactions in matter at the highest known densities.

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