Predictive policing substantially reduces crime in Los Angeles during...
A new study by a UCLA-led team of scholars and law enforcement officials suggests the answer is yes. A mathematical model they devised to guide where the Los Angeles Police Department should deploy...
View Article'Psychic robot' will know what you really meant to do
What if software could steer a car back on track if the driver swerves on ice? Or guide a prosthesis to help a shaky stroke patient smoothly lift a cup?
View ArticlePrinceton honoring memory of mathematician John Nash
Five months after his remarkable life ended in a crash on a New Jersey highway, Princeton University is paying tribute to John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician remembered by colleagues for...
View ArticleHow chickens walk holds clues to how they spread disease
Plotting on a grid just how a chicken walks may one day give farmers more insight into how best to protect their flock from non-airborne pathogens that can also hurt their profit.
View ArticleLearning from ants how to build transportation networks
Using mathematical modeling and field data, researchers at the mathematics department at Uppsala University have found the basic rules that allow ants to build efficient and low cost transport networks...
View ArticleResearch reveals how global warming will impact Earth's carbon cycle
A research review by University of Exeter climate scientist, Professor Pierre Friedlingstein, examines how state-of-the-art mathematical modelling can help clarify carbon cycle sensitivity to climate...
View ArticleCars must be considerate of the driver when talking
Smart telephones and TVs are well-established technical gadgets in today's society. The same cannot be said about smart cars with dialogue systems that can understand you and communicate as if they...
View ArticleResearchers find universality in protein locality
A team of researchers has mapped out a universal dynamic that explains the production and distribution of proteins in a cell, a process that varies in detail from protein to protein and cell to cell,...
View ArticleKetchup and traffic jams—the maths of soft matter
The class of materials known as soft matter—which includes everything from mayonnaise to molten plastic—is the subject of the inaugural lecture by Michael Cates, Cambridge's Lucasian Professor of...
View ArticleTeaching the blind to draw—and do STEM
University of Vermont start-up company E.A.S.Y. LLC has received a $1 million Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a commercial prototype...
View ArticleA flight management system available to all
The aircraft industry is worth billions. But it's not just jets driving the dollars up—it's the complicated electronics that help them fly.
View ArticleUsing 'mood maths' to understand more about bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder – formerly known as manic depression – is a chronic, recurrent mental illness characterised by extreme swings in mood. The condition is thought to affect at least one in every 100...
View ArticleStudy suggests carbon content of temperate forests overestimated
Digital measurements of millions of trees indicate that previous studies likely overestimate the amount of carbon stored by temperate U.S. forests, according to a new NASA study.
View ArticleTown planners underestimate the importance of urban green spaces
Compact towns with high population density can have social, environmental, and economic benefits. The supply of high-density urban housing has increased, but people continue to choose to live in...
View ArticleAn online game reveals something fishy about mathematical models
How can you tell if your mathematical model is good enough? In a new study, researchers from Uppsala University implemented a Turing test in the form of an online game (with over 1700 players) to...
View Article'Freak' ocean waves hit without warning, new research shows
Mariners have long spoken of 'walls of water' appearing from nowhere in the open seas. But oceanographers have generally disregarded such stories and suggested that rogue waves - enormous surface waves...
View ArticleA mathematical model for animal stripes
The back of a tiger could have been a blank canvas. Instead, nature painted the big cat with parallel stripes, evenly spaced and perpendicular to the spine. Scientists don't know exactly how stripes...
View ArticleModeling Amazonian transitional forest micrometeorology
What can mathematical modeling teach us about the micrometeorology of the southern Amazonian 'transitional' forest? Quite a lot, it turns out. This particular forest is located between the rain forest...
View ArticleHow two-tone cats get their patches comes to light in cell study
Scientists have discovered how the distinctive piebald patches seen in black and white cats and some horses are formed in the womb.
View ArticleDo the math—why some people are jerks yet others are even nice to strangers
Why are some people always jerks? Yale University psychologists have developed a mathematical model that provides an answer, and also helps to explain why the rest of us are usually nice, even to...
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