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? | |
Brown mathematicians prove new way to build a better estimate February 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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How do you sift through hundreds of billions of bits of information and make accurate inferences from such gargantuan sets of data? Brown University mathematician Charles “Chip” Lawrence and graduate student Luis Carvalho ... | |
New method for solving differential equations January 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Dutch-sponsored mathematician Valeriu Savcenco has developed new methods for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. These so-called multirate methods are highly efficient for large systems, where some ... | |
 New World Cup football will unsettle goalkeepers, predicts scientist June 07, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 18 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 ... | |
NIST releases preview of much-anticipated online mathematics reference June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a five-chapter preview of the much-anticipated online Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF). In development for over a decade, the DLMF is ... | |
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 / 5 after 21 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, ... | |
 Algorithm finds the network -- for genes or the Internet March 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Human diseases and social networks seem to have little in common. However, at the crux of these two lies a network, communities within the network, and farther even, substructures of the communities. In a ... | |
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