 Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians December 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 363 vote(s)
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Mathematicians from the University of Exeter have solved the mystery of traffic jams by developing a model to show how major delays occur on our roads, with no apparent cause. Many traffic jams leave drivers ... | |
 Synchronising the Swarm June 20, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Models from theoretical physics, which are normally used to plot the motion of particles, are beginning to shed light upon the mass migration of living organisms as well. These include swarms of locusts, which ... | |
The mathematics of cloaking December 26, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 104 vote(s)
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The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced "invisibility cloak" have revealed a new analysis ... | |
 The Best Way to Board a Plane February 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 123 vote(s)
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Most airlines board passengers the same way, first filling the seats in the back of the plane, and then moving to the front. After a recent experience boarding a plane in this manner, Fermilab physicist Jason ... | |
 Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years August 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 227 vote(s)
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A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research. | |
Mathematicians unlock major number theory puzzle February 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 179 vote(s)
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Mathematicians have finally laid to rest the legendary mystery surrounding an elusive group of numerical expressions known as the "mock theta functions." Number theorists have struggled to understand the functions ever since ... | |
A mighty number falls May 21, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 107 vote(s)
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Mathematicians and number buffs have their records. And today, an international team has broken a long-standing one in an impressive feat of calculation. | |
Mathematicians Solve the 'Cocktail Party Problem' August 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 89 vote(s)
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Officials at the CIA and scientists around the world have pondered the "cocktail party problem" for decades. How could they separate one sound - perhaps a voice - from a group of other recorded sounds, perhaps a multitude ... | |
 Mathematicians solve E8 structure (Update) March 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 160 vote(s)
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A transatlantic team of number-crunchers announced they had built a theoretical structure in 248 dimensions, resolving a 120-year puzzle that could be used to test theories about the structure of the cosmos. | |
Scientists one more step closer to realising invisible technology May 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 95 vote(s)
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A unique computer model designed by a mathematician at the University of Liverpool has shown that it is possible to make objects, such as aeroplanes and submarines, appear invisible at close range. | |
 The new shape of music: Music has its own geometry, researchers find April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 137 vote(s)
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The connection between music and mathematics has fascinated scholars for centuries. More than 200 years ago Pythagoras reportedly discovered that pleasing musical intervals could be described using simple ... | |
 New mathematical method provides better way to analyze noise June 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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Humans have 200 million light receptors in their eyes, 10 to 20 million receptors devoted to smell, but only 8,000 dedicated to sound. Yet despite this miniscule number, the auditory system is the fastest of ... | |
 Northeastern University researchers solve Rubik's Cube in 26 moves May 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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It’s a toy that most kids have played with at one time or another, but the findings of Northeastern University Computer Science professor Gene Cooperman and graduate student Dan Kunkle are not child’s play. ... | |
How a simple mathematic formula is starting to explain the bizarre prevalence of altruism in society July 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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Why do humans cooperate in things as diverse as environment conservation or the creation of fairer societies, even when they don’t receive anything in exchange or, worst, they might even be penalized? | |
Taking evolution's temperature: Researchers pinpoint the energy it takes to make a species May 31, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Comfortable living is not why so many different life forms seem to converge at the warmer areas of the planet. | |
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