Taking complex systems such as the Internet and social networks as examples, a group of experts at the University of Cambridge was able to create a mathematical model of the brain. Though simple, their tool provides a surprisingly complete statistical account of how different regions interact.
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12 April 2012
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A collaboration of investigators from the Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that specific waves of electrical activity develop in the human brain according to the different states the brain is in at any given time.
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8 February 2012
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MIT computational biologists analyzed thousands of genes from 100 modern genomes and managed to reconstruct a genomic fossil, telling not only when these genes appeared but also the ancient microbes they possessed.Life on Earth rapidly changed 580 million years ago, in a period called the Cambrian Explosion, when ove... |
20 December 2010
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A team of experts in the United States announces the development of a new mathematical model, that can be used to better inform national authorities about how they should stockpile vaccine. This is basically a creative version of a classic engineering technique, that is aimed at identifying the best possible ways to ... |
10 September 2010
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A group of investigators at the University of Helsinki Institute of Biotechnology announces the creation of a new computer model meant to reproduce population-level variations in complex organs and teeth. The achievement could in the near future be used as foundation for new techniques designed to construct artificia... |
16 March 2010
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Researchers at the Rice University have recently conducted a series of tests on an elegant set of equations that was developed around 1908 by German physicist Gustav Mie. What the formulas do is basically predict the interaction of electromagnetic waves with a spherical metal particle. The predictions are so precise ... |
13 March 2010
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Dementia is a family of diseases that includes some terrible conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). The very structure of the brain is undergoing transformations because of these diseases, and experts have tried to gain a better understanding on how this happen... |
21 August 2009
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Experts in advanced mathematics have recently proposed a new model to explain our Universe that is so different from what we have held as true thus far, that it has left many gasping for air. According to the new theory, it may be that our Universe is not expanding at all. Rather, galaxies appear to be pushing away f... |
18 August 2009
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Scientists at the University of Utah have recently announced the development of a new mathematical model, which could lead to the creation of a novel cloaking method. The research is not aimed at producing “invisibility cloaks” that absorb visible light, but rather at creating new means of making stealth ... |
17 August 2009
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Biologists at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) have recently developed a new model for explaining the actions of the billions of molecular “switches” that allow for life to happen inside the human body. Every single action that goes on in a cell or an organ is carefully coordinated via... |
4 August 2009
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Cicadas, which are relatively harmless insects, are also some of the most bizarre in the world. They live either 13 or 17 years, to the minute, and do not come out of the ground for about 99 percent of their life span. But when they do, they come out all at once, with as much as 40,000 of them emerging from under a s... |
19 May 2009
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Gleaming at supernova remnants (SNR) is not always easy, mostly because they are either very distant, or because they are surrounded by large amounts of dust. In either case, direct observations become very difficult, because only observatories working in radio, infrared, or ultraviolet wavelengths can pierce through... |
23 April 2009
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