 Ig Nobel 2006 Prize in mathematics October 06, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in mathematics was awarded to Dr Piers Barnes and Ms Nic Svenson of CSIRO for figuring out how many photographs to take of a group of people to be confident of getting at least one where ... | |
Fate might not be so unpredictable after all, study suggests December 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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Why does it take so long for soul mates to find each other? How does disease spread through a person’s body? When will the next computer virus attack your hard-drive? | |
 New World Cup football will unsettle goalkeepers, predicts scientist June 07, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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The new football that will be used for the first time in the World Cup’s opening game today is likely to “bamboozle” goalkeepers at some stage of the tournament, a leading scientist has warned. | |
Mathematicians predict the future of the past tense October 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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Verbs evolve and homogenize at a rate inversely proportional to their prevalence in the English language, according to a formula developed by Harvard University mathematicians who've invoked evolutionary principles to study ... | |
 The Mathematics of Natural Motion May 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Circles, slaloms, figure eights, and loop-the-loops – biologists studying the motion of Listeria monocytogenes sensed that these paths were related, but they didn’t have a good way to define what fit in and ... | |
Math model predicts cancer behavior December 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Vito Quaranta clicks on a small black dot on his computer screen. The dot – which represents about a thousand cancer cells – begins to "grow," morphing into a mass with finger-like projections that looks like an invasive ... | |
 Works of mathematical power, beauty yield Clay Research Prize June 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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An institute that promotes the “beauty, power and universality” of mathematical thought has awarded the Clay Research Prize to Alex Eskin, Professor in Mathematics at the University of Chicago. | |
 Statistics Professor Hides Pictures, Messages in Problem Solutions April 11, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Say you’re an aspiring statistician who has just spent hours trying to figure out the answer to a particularly thorny problem. As you plug the final numbers into the computer program you’re running in order ... | |
Quasicrystals: Somewhere between order and disorder May 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Professionally speaking, things in David Damanik's world don't line up – and he can prove it. In new research that's available online and slated for publication in July's issue of the Journal of the American Mathematical ... | |
New mathematical model predicts more virulent microbes October 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Microbes and humans interact in myriad ways, sharing a long history. Many of the most successful microbes are those that inhabit but do not kill their host. Cheaters lose. Tuberculosis settles into the lungs. Helicobacter ... | |
Cardiff's bees calculation sets industry buzzing August 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Researchers at Cardiff University's Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC) developed the procedure, or algorithm, after observing the "waggle dance" of bees foraging for nectar. The algorithm enables companies to maximise ... | |
Predicting the Timing of Major Earthquakes December 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Forecasting when a major earthquake will erupt -- within a window of two to three years -- could be possible, based on mathematical studies by researchers at UC Davis, Boston University and the University of Western Ontario, ... | |
Data-driven computational method created May 29, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A U.S. statistician has created a data-driven computational approach that's revealing secrets about the inner Earth, as well as gene expression. | |
Math of elections says voters win with 'winner take all' April 10, 2007 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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If we want individuals and small groups to have the democratic power to elect the president fairly, we must score presidential elections by winner-take-all states--not in a single giant national district too large for small ... | |
 NIST Math Technique Opens Clearer Window on Universe December 07, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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A fast, efficient image enhancement technique developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and originally applied to improving monochrome microscope images has proved itself equally effective ... | |
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