Can we protect against computers being fingerprinted?
Imagine that every time a person goes out in public, they leave behind a track for all to see, so that their behaviour can be easily analysed, revealing their identity.
View ArticleHow a little mathematics can help create some beautiful music
Since the time of Pythagoras around 500 BCE, music and mathematics have had an intimate and mutually supportive relationship.
View ArticleStudent shows how diagrams can be used to make buildings energy smart
An Imperial engineering student showcases his equations as a set of beautiful diagrams and describes how they can be used to optimise processes.
View ArticleEarly controlled use of fire may have led to emergence of tuberculosis
(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with the University of New South Wales and Monash University, both in Australia, has developed a theory that suggests tuberculosis may have evolved into a disease...
View ArticleImproving computer graphics with quantum mechanics
Caltech applied scientists have developed a new way to simulate large-scale motion numerically using the mathematics that govern the universe at the quantum level.
View ArticleNew insights into the evolution of cooperation in spatially structured...
Researchers have analyzed a new mathematical model to investigate how a population's spatial structure affects the evolution of cooperation. Jorge Peña of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary...
View ArticleMathematicians reveal reasons why the level of poverty in European countries...
Oihana Aristondo, a researcher at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, has succeeded in expressing the poverty index of a country using a mathematical formula based on three variables. She has...
View ArticleScientists conduct mathematical analysis of a rare cavernicolous crustacean
A scientific collaboration of researchers from the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Smithsonian Institution has discovered previously unknown regularities of arthropod limbs based on studies...
View ArticleUnderstanding nature's patterns with plasmas
Patterns abound in nature, from zebra stripes and leopard spots to honeycombs and bands of clouds. Somehow, these patterns form and organize all by themselves. To better understand how, researchers...
View ArticleSophisticated maths simplifies appraisals
The immense challenges in delivering a fair, transparent and objective performance appraisal process in large organisations can be made much easier with a new approach developed by University of...
View ArticleCreative mathematical tasks contribute to deeper learning in mathematics
Working with creative mathematical tasks is important for pupils both to reflect on mathematics as well as for their subsequent test results. Being faced with creative tasks during exercise has evident...
View ArticleParents' math skills 'rub off' on their children
Parents who excel at math produce children who excel at math. This is according to a recently released University of Pittsburgh study, which shows a distinct transfer of math skills from parent to...
View ArticleBetter models to forecast effects of environmental change on food webs
Extinctions, variations in population densities, and large algal blooms in waters are examples of expected effects of global warming and nutrient over-fertilization. Wojciech Uszko at Umeå University...
View ArticleAlgorithm for predicting protein pairings could help show how living systems...
An algorithm which models how proteins inside cells interact with each other will enhance the study of biology, and sheds light on how proteins work together to complete tasks such as turning food into...
View ArticleHow Experian is turning big data into big dollars
At Experian DataLabs, a team of scientists is thwarting bad guys with math.
View ArticleGame theory: Army of agents to tackle corrupt officials, tax evaders, terrorists
Game theory has long been used to apply mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers.
View ArticleMathematical analysis offers clues on timing of flu outbreaks
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the University of California and Stanford University has found that applying "empirical dynamic modeling" techniques to heat and humidity readings over a period of...
View ArticlePhysicist honored for finding new symmetry in space and time
The American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics this month awarded the 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics to Carl M. Bender of Washington University in St. Louis .
View ArticleResearchers investigate how neurons sample probability distributions
For observations based on sensory data, the human brain must constantly verify which "version" of reality underlies the perception. The answer is gleaned from probability distributions that are stored...
View ArticleEven physicists are 'afraid' of mathematics
Physicists avoid highly mathematical work despite being trained in advanced mathematics, new research suggests.
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