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 ... | |
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 ... | |
 Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years August 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 225 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. | |
Safer shipping by predicting sand wave behaviour July 05, 2007 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Dutch researcher Joris van den Berg has developed a mathematical model to predict the movement of sand waves. | |
Mathematics reveals genetic pattern of tumor growth June 21, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Using mathematical theory, UC Irvine scientists have shed light on one of cancer’s most troubling puzzles -- how cancer cells can alter their own genetic makeup to accelerate tumor growth. The discovery shows for the first ... | |
 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. | |
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. | |
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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
New mathematical model to add rigor to studies of disease genetics and evolution March 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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USC College computational biologist Peter Calabrese has developed a new model to simulate the evolution of so-called recombination hotspots in the genome. | |
Noise echoes in cell communications February 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Can't hear? Turn up the white noise, says a team of Rutgers-Camden professors who have produced a mathematical explanation for the benefits of noise. Their findings could lead to major improvements in hearing aid technology. | |
Stock options may cost shareholders much less than previously thought January 12, 2007 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Controversial stock options for company executives may be much less costly to shareholders than current mathematical models suggest, according to research presented Jan. 5 by Tim Leung of Princeton's Department of Operations ... | |
Russian mathematician wins science award December 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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A Russian mathematician's solution to a 100-year-old math puzzle was voted Breakthrough of the Year by Science, a leading scientific journal. | |
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