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Constructing a new subway line underneath a large city is already a huge challenge all by itself, but building one that bypasses a large number of historical buildings with the minimum amount of costs is even more complex. Nonetheless, this is what a team of experts from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of th... |
12 November 2009
05:58 GMT |
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Although it may seem like mathematical problems from the past are behind us, and our researchers deal with more abstract and complex calculations, this is not the case, as evidenced recently by a new computer effort by an international team of experts. Scientists from North and South America, from Europe, and Austral... |
22 September 2009
05:49 GMT |
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The Drake Equation (DE) was compiled in the 1960s by now University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC) Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics Dr. Frank Drake, in an attempt to quantify the number of worlds in the Milky Way that might sustain extraterrestrial civilizations. Even if its results are erroneous,... |
17 September 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Albert Einstein's famous theory of general relativity and the quantum mechanics theory are two of the most complete methods we have of explaining our surrounding realities. However, each of them only describes a part of the Universe, so an idea that would unify the two has been sought for over the last decades. ... |
18 August 2009
06:21 GMT |
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that most dogs have the same intelligence level as a two-year-old child, experts say. While this is true for most species, others, such as border collies, poodles and German shepherds (in this precise order), have a brain developed enough to be considered similar to t... |
10 August 2009
05:07 GMT |
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New measurements and estimates of how dinosaurs looked like show that the largest animals in history may have not been as large as researchers first made them to be. Biologists from the George Mason University, in Virginia, led by Geoffrey Birchard, devised a new equation of calculating dinosaurs' weight based s... |
22 June 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Since the beginning of mankind, people have been wondering where we came from and where we are headed, if we were made or if we evolved, the same questions that now spark heated debates among astronomers, as well as between creationists and evolutionists. In an attempt to answer this question, Kansas State Universit... |
10 June 2009
08:40 GMT |
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Any help in child education is sought-after from both perspectives, that of the parent and that of the youngster. In the first case all things that can contribute positively to the kid's upbringing and thus lift off the parents' shoulders some of the many responsibilities are yearned for. From the children&... |
8 June 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Far from saying that girls do not get math, a new scientific study actually shows that females have just the same amount of inclination towards understanding complex equations and fractions as males do. The paper proves that it's culture that prevents women from having about the same presence in the field of exa... |
2 June 2009
06:57 GMT |
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The Kervaire invariant problem is one of the long-standing mysteries of topological science, and many researchers alive today didn't even imagine that the solution could be found within their lifetime. The formula managed to keep its secrets for more than 45 years, but now a team of three mathematical researcher... |
5 May 2009
18:51 GMT |
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Women's reactions to stereotypes have been documented in a number of scientific studies, and they have shown that females are very likely to experience the negative consequences of negative stereotypes, if they are simply made aware of them. With this knowledge in mind, Indiana University Department of Psycholog... |
4 May 2009
06:52 GMT |
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While for most people a hot cup of coffee is a reason to get up in the morning, for some scientists it holds the clue to understanding how black holes work and also represents a way of finding the elusive dark matter. A Duke University professor and one of his graduate students realized that the way in which light an... |
15 April 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Ken Golden is one of the people who are able to look at something around them and instantly find correlations with something else. Fortunately, he did that in 1994, when the University of Utah mathematician partook in the Antarctic Zone Flux Experiment, which took place on the shores of the Eastern Weddell Sea. There... |
13 April 2009
09:44 GMT |
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During middle school, most children start figuring out for themselves whether or not they like exact sciences, such as mathematics. Therefore, if new generations of scientists are to take an interest in these fields of research, they have to be attracted towards them. Researchers at the Vanderbilt and Harvard uni... |
11 April 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Over the years, teachers and students alike have complained that mathematical fractions are a very difficult concept to master in schools, and that the mental abstractionism involved in operating with these concepts is too high. It was not until recently that scientists proved that the human mind was, in fact, attune... |
8 April 2009
06:43 GMT |
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The fact that chocolate helps stimulate the brain and the mood is widely known; however, until now, researchers had no idea that the sweet stuff can also influence the way we do math. According to a new study, which is widely circulated in the British media, flavanols, compounds that can be found in chocolate, have t... |
4 April 2009
03:31 GMT |
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According to scientific predictions, the rising incidence of global warming-related phenomena, such as intense and powerful storms, floods and droughts, will force millions of people out of their homes, located in areas more prone to feeling these effects of climate change. As the atmosphere becomes clogged with carb... |
2 April 2009
03:04 GMT |
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Newcastle University experts have only recently devised a groundbreaking mathematical model that could potentially be used to assess the risk of a tsunami occurring, to determine which area is most likely to get hit and in what time frame the destructive wave will reach the coast. It goes without saying that such a m... |
1 April 2009
08:50 GMT |
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Fractals, rough and irregular geometric shapes whose components have approximately the same form as the whole, may be the key to understanding the quantum world, physicists say. Endowed with the property of self-similarity, fractals can hardly be described by Euclidean geometry, in that they are rarely a common shape... |
30 March 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Hartford in the United States believe they may have just found a very effective way of “calming” the city's traffic and, implicitly, its jams. They are using a statistical theorem published by the famed mathematician Thomas Bayes (1702-1761), which deals with assessing... |
30 March 2009
06:11 GMT |
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Wajih and Zohaib Ahmed are simply two children. The first one is 11 years old, while his younger brother is only 9. Despite being at an age where most of their college counterparts learn the multiplication table, they have already learned to master complicated algebra, as evidenced by the fact that Wajih has just rec... |
25 March 2009
07:56 GMT |
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According to British researchers who have just recently published a new scientific study on the matter, children who are born very prematurely are highly likely to have a way lower IQ than their peers. They are also even more prone to needing additional assistance in coping with the demands of primary schools, and es... |
12 March 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Some entrepreneurs in France have had the idea of starting a website dedicated to solving math problems. It's a place where children from all around the world can post the problems they have been assigned at school, so that older French mathematics students can then solve them and post the solution. Naturally, a... |
4 March 2009
10:50 GMT |
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Researchers have recently learned that employing gestures when explaining mathematical concepts can be very helpful at times, especially for little kids. And they are useful not only because they are fun and so on, but because they offer a totally new way of understanding the concepts involved. The new technique make... |
25 February 2009
08:43 GMT |
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Since the dawn of civilization, music has been an integrated part of a child's education, as everyone has realized the potential that sounds have in shaping the mind of a young pupil. In most countries in the world today, music lessons are still offered in schools as part of the basic curricula, along with sport... |
11 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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While some people can juggle with numbers, and even invent theories that dispute knowledge hundreds of years old, others find themselves unable to complete the most basic calculations. And we're not talking about not learning their lesson for the next class either. Recent discoveries point at the fact that a med... |
24 January 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Mathematician Andrew Hicks from the Drexel University managed to develop, in collaboration with colleague Ron Perline, a new type of rear-view mirror, one that offers a wide-angle view of what's behind the car, while at the same time eliminating the dreaded blind spot that each car has. This spot is located on a... |
19 January 2009
05:22 GMT |
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According to new statistics released last week by the US Education Department, more than 1 in 7 American adults lack the most basic skills in understanding written language and basic mathematic calculus. That is to say, well over 14 percent of already-employed individuals in the US cannot even read the newspaper, or ... |
12 January 2009
03:50 GMT |
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The Lemelson-MIT Invention Index for 2009 showed without a doubt that America's youth is prepared and willing to embrace careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), with a very large percentage of them showing an active interest in learning “how things work.” Alt... |
7 January 2009
09:25 GMT |
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For centuries, mathematicians have been trying to determine what the best ways of wrapping gifts of any kind are so as to minimize the surface they occupy during transport. For some time, this research was disguised as “a quest to help Santa fit more gifts in his sleigh.” But you know how mathematicians a... |
20 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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When it comes to chess, most people see themselves as falling into the category labeled “I have some skill, I may even beat my neighbors or my little niece, but I'm not really a grandmaster.” The last part is perhaps even more true, when it comes to maths. Well, to prove this to you beyond doubt, her... |
1 December 2008
08:32 GMT |
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The following article tries to explain in more comprehensive terms why dividing by 0 should yield undefined results and it shows how Mathematics can earn serious money. If you have trouble adding together two numbers of 3 digits each, then this might not be for you.Basically, dividing any number by zero yields an und... |
29 September 2008
09:37 GMT |
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Spotlight is Apple's system-wide desktop search feature found within Mac OS X. The feature was introduced in OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on April 29, 2005, aimed at providing a quick-locate option for all files on a Mac. While Apple's cleverly designed Spotlight even gives the dictionary definition of pretty much any... |
19 August 2008
09:30 GMT |
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In the majority of cases, mathematics proved to be, at some point or another, a pain in the neck for each of us. No matter if it's geometry, algebra, trigonometry or whatever other fields math might have, we have all experienced bitter frustration when a problem just could not be solved or properly understood. O... |
31 July 2008
13:19 GMT |
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Music might not have a physical shape, but it is possible to use a mathematical approach see what the shape of music might look like. Florida State University, Yale University and Princeton University researchers Clifton Callender, Ian Quinn and Dmitri Tymoczko respectively have recently demonstrated a technique thro... |
8 May 2008
06:03 GMT |
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Knowing how solid surfaces interact with liquids is often required in domains such as chemical industry or nanotechnology, but so far nobody succeeded to describe these interactions in simple mathematical formulas. Every time scientists tried to explain the phenomenon through experiments in this field, calculations b... |
9 April 2008
05:57 GMT |
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Aztecs may be more famous for their bloody rituals, but they were one of the most advanced civilizations of America, with cities as larger as those of contemporaneous Europe, and formed perhaps the most powerful pre-Columbian empire, comparable only to the Inca. Such a powerful state was possible via a complex organi... |
5 April 2008
05:43 GMT |
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This was one of the most complicated war machines of the antiquity, the main siege machine till the invention of the cannons. But despite its sophistication, the first catapult crafted by the Ancient Greeks did not employ complicated math formulas. Archimedes' theories improved the weapon. "The first catapult in... |
10 October 2007
02:52 GMT |
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We tend to regard the Western World as the cradle of science, but many new findings show the falsity of this concept. Now, it appears that a less famous school of scholars in southwest India is the place where one of the basic principles of modern mathematics was born, three centuries before Newton was credited with ... |
15 August 2007
07:20 GMT |
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Number 1 is very frequently used around the world. That wouldn't be much of a curiosity, if you knew all the fields it appears in. It's the most commonly found figure in groups as disparate as populations, death rates, physical and chemical constants, baseball statistics, the half-lives of radioactive isot... |
11 May 2007
09:57 GMT |
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