Math can predict how cancer cells evolve
Applied mathematics can be a powerful tool in helping predict the genesis and evolution of different types of cancers, a study from the University of Waterloo has found.
View ArticleNew study suggests human fleas and lice were behind Black Death, not rodents
A team of researchers with the University of Oslo has found evidence that suggests human fleas and lice, not rodents, were behind the spread of the plague that killed millions of people over the course...
View ArticleThe Fields Medal fallacy: Why this math prize should return to its roots
The Fields Medal, whose origins date back to the 1930s, will be issued again this year in August to up to four of the world's most accomplished mathematicians under the age of 40. In a commentary for...
View ArticleHow living systems compute solutions to problems
How do decisions get made in the natural world? One possibility is that the individuals or components in biological systems collectively compute solutions to challenges they face in their environments....
View ArticleMobility patterns influence the spread and containment of an epidemic
Contrary to expectations, recurring mobility between different cities or districts of a large city (for example, work-home commutes) can minimise the spread of an epidemic. This is the finding of...
View ArticleThe algorithms of our future thinking machines
Behind every self-driving car, self-learning robot and smart building hides a variety of advanced algorithms that control learning and decision making. Some of the mathematical models that make up the...
View ArticleMathematicians develop model for how new ideas emerge
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a mathematical model for the emergence of innovations.
View ArticleTeam sheds light on the mysteries of Saturn's rings
A Skoltech-led team of international scientists has developed a mathematical model that makes sense of one of the great mysteries of Saturn's rings.
View ArticleIndian sacred texts and the logic of computer ethics
The Indian sacred texts of the Vedas have been studied for millennia. But now, for the first time in history, computer scientists in Vienna analyse them by applying the methods of mathematical logic....
View ArticleTeam finds two theoretical physics models to be equivalent
Two Yale-NUS College undergraduates are part of a research team that concluded that two different mathematical models, which describe the same physical phenomenon, are essentially equivalent. The...
View ArticleEpidemics: The end of containment measures?
When an epidemic outbreak such H1N1, Zika or SARS viruses occurs, containment measures may seem to be the most reasonable solution. However, an EPFL study casts doubt on that idea, showing that such...
View ArticleNovel computational biology model accurately describes dynamics of gene...
Using a simple analytical framework for random events within a predictable system, computational biologists have found a new way to accurately model certain forms of gene expression, including the...
View ArticleMathematics explains why Crispr-Cas9 sometimes cuts the wrong DNA
The discovery of the Cas9 protein has simplified gene editing, and may even make it possible to eliminate many hereditary diseases in the near future. Using Cas9, researchers have the ability to cut...
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