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A group of physicists at the University of Cambridge announce the development of the first mathematical model that can explain the shape of a ponytail, and can also quantify the curliness of human hair. Experts have been interested in the properties of hair since the time of Leonardo da Vinci.
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13 February 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Officials at the Cambridge University, in the United Kingdom, announce that they recently made most of the books written by Sir Isaac Newton available online. These works, some of the most important scientific documents ever, are now available to the general public here.
Newton was the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics... |
13 December 2011
08:17 GMT |
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The results of a study conducted by Prof. Michelle Riconscente from the University of Southern California in partnership with GameDesk may act as evidence iPads are key to boosting student math skills.The study, labeled as experimental, was conducted to determine whether Motion Math, a fractions game designed for App... |
8 December 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Officials from the Los Angeles Police Department recently asked a group of mathematicians at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) to help them determine which violent street gangs were involved in violent crimes that are unsolved even now.
The UCLA group was able to develop a series of mathematical ... |
29 October 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Oregon say that crop circles are very likely not caused by supernatural forces or UFOs, but rather by the laws of physics. These circles are enormous drawings on the ground, usually laid in crop fields, and that are visible in their entirety only from the air. The director of the UO Ma... |
1 August 2011
08:20 GMT |
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One of the words most often used to describe today's worldwide energy usage patterns is wasteful. A lot of the energy we harvest at such a high cost is lost due to inefficiencies in the distribution system, but now experts have shown through mathematics that this wasted energy can be recaptured for use. The math... |
21 July 2011
07:39 GMT |
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Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) say that they discovered a way to use basic mathematical concepts in understanding, and potentially fighting, Parkinson's disease. By using mathematics, doctors may be able to treat their patients better. The QUT group says that their approach allows h... |
22 June 2011
03:58 GMT |
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For children, mathematics can be difficult to learn, especially if there's not enough practice. To those starting from an early age to discover the basics, AddOrSubtract will shed some needed light on two of the most common operations.When it comes to teaching kids the fundamentals of a subject like math, any he... |
27 April 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Experts at the Australian National University (ANU) have recently compiled a new mathematical model, that goes a long way towards explaining the physics behind the pruney fingers we get if we stay in the water for prolonged periods of time. Evolutionary biologists say that this is an evolutionary adaptation we develo... |
9 March 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Researchers were recently able to gain more insight into how the human brain processes and summarizes the wealth of impulses sent to it by the retina. They were even able to develop a new mathematical model that allows them to explain some peculiarities pertaining to vision.This simulation also shows certain informat... |
28 January 2011
09:40 GMT |
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A team of professors from the University of Málaga say that they have developed a new method of approaching complex mathematical equations and calculations, that revolve around using soap bubbles and films as a source of inspiration. In addition to fascinating children, these structures are shaping up to becom... |
26 January 2011
16:01 GMT |
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According to researchers behind a new scientific study, it would appear that the reason why large and complex societies failed throughout history laid within the inherent instability of such constructs. This instability can apparently be predicted mathematically, say researchers that created a new model. The team tha... |
20 January 2011
08:55 GMT |
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A researcher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) recently announced the development of a new computer model, which takes into account a number of factors when determining what technology authorities should opt for when it comes to energy production. Sadly, at this time, financial concerns are the only o... |
28 December 2010
09:43 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States managed to develop a mathematical model that for the first time explains the behavior of shape-memory polymers. These materials are not new, but the way they function has never been modeled before. In charge of the investigation were researches at the Massachusetts Instit... |
6 December 2010
06:45 GMT |
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A team of researchers discovered that whale sharks – the largest fish in the world, use energy conservation and geometry to stay afloat.Adrian Gleiss and Rory Wilson, from Swansea University, along with Brad Norman from ECOcean Inc., led an international team to investigate the movements of whale sharks, Rhinco... |
25 November 2010
05:59 GMT |
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The far side of the Moon is always unseen by the naked eye on Earth, but a team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have found a way of describing how it looks, thus revealing a bit more about its history.The near and far sides of the moon are very different from one another and understanding ... |
12 November 2010
03:09 GMT |
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Two psychological scientists from Cornell University carried out a research that explained why women are so underrepresented in math-intensive fields, like physics, electrical engineering, computer science, economics, and chemistry, and apparently it's all a matter of will.This is actually a relatively old quest... |
27 October 2010
05:04 GMT |
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The ‘Traveling Salesman Problem’ is a mathematical puzzle on which researchers have been working for decades. In a new study, it was demonstrated that bumblebees resolve it every single day. The TSP is heavily used in theoretical compute science and in operations research, and is classified as a NP-hard p... |
25 October 2010
06:50 GMT |
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According to a new series of scientific studies, it would appear that the Bing Bang, the moment that exploded the Universe into existence, was followed shortly after by a moment of pure chaos.The term chaos is used here in its scientific sense. While one may expect that the Universe was not a very ordered place in th... |
5 October 2010
06:31 GMT |
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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
03:21 GMT |
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A new theory proposes that the earliest Universe, which formed immediately after the Big Bang, expanded in the space around it in an extremely chaotic manner. This is not by far a new idea. It was proposed for the first time more than seven years ago, by Adilson E. Motter, who is a physics expert at the Northwestern ... |
8 September 2010
09:12 GMT |
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Scientists in the United Kingdom have recently developed a method of measuring string theory, a 50-year-old idea that was designed to reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics into a single, unified Theory of Everything.Physicists have been looking for this Holy Grail for many years, and String Theory was on... |
2 September 2010
04:28 GMT |
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Given the fact that quality of life indexes are notoriously not objective, researchers have been trying to develop a mathematical formula for creating one for many years – and it would appear that they finally succeeded. Creating a quality-of-life index is a very complex and difficult problem to solve. The ques... |
30 August 2010
03:32 GMT |
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For many years, biomechanics experts, mathematicians and physicists have been arguing about which kind of errors underlie failures in reaching targets when humans throw things.Clearly, one of the most complex aspects of the problem is the fact that the human arm provides its “owner” with nearly endless po... |
17 August 2010
06:05 GMT |
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After more than three decades of search, experts were finally able to determine the smallest number of moves necessary to solve any start configuration of the famous Rubik's Cube. The new calculations demonstrated that the so-called “God's number” for the 3D puzzle is 20. Over the years, countle... |
11 August 2010
09:22 GMT |
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Since 2005, a group of researchers and undergraduates at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have been conducting investigations into how sand and oil interact. With only modest funding, the team has been performing hands-on experiments on how the sludge moves on a sloped angle, using mathematical mode... |
29 July 2010
04:33 GMT |
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Indiana University researchers have recently concluded a thorough study on negative stereotypes, which revealed that this phenomenon causes significant repercussions in people they are addressed to. The team says subjecting people to relentless stereotyping can literally impair their ability to learn. For many years,... |
27 July 2010
08:56 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have been trying to figure out what is it that drives locust swarms in their devastating migrations. When this happens, crops and other vegetation is at tremendous risk, as the insects appear to have an insatiable appetite. But, despite experts' best efforts, no clear solutions to the ... |
27 July 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Our planet has a long time ago been established to be round. Subsequent researches have confirmed this fact over and over again, and yet there are still those that doubt it, and claim global conspiracies to cover some mysterious thing up. But, while most educated people laugh at these lunatics, they too tend to consi... |
9 June 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Though it may seem a bit counterintuitive at first, mathematics can indeed explain some aspects of love. A researcher in Spain managed, for instance, to create an advanced theoretical model that is capable of explaining – at least in part – why divorce and break-up rates are continuously rising in the Uni... |
17 May 2010
09:19 GMT |
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Two experts at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Mathematics announce that they were able to solve a 140-year-old equation. The two professors, Philip T. Gressman and Robert M. Strain, explain in the latest issue of the esteemed publication Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that they w... |
14 May 2010
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Since the early days of science, people have attempted to understand precisely what happens during sleep, and why we need to sleep at all. While the immediate answer would seem to be “to get some rest,” this doesn't hold when looking at the issue from a biological point of view. True enough, over the... |
26 February 2010
08:58 GMT |
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Satellites and high-tech weather instruments are just two examples of the range of sensitive technological systems that our civilization is heavily reliant upon today. Like everything else in this world, regardless of the amount of work that goes into creating these systems, they all have errors, caused either by gli... |
27 January 2010
08:53 GMT |
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One of the things most people know about light is that it tends to travel in a straight line. This is made obvious by the fact that when you place your hand between a source of light and your face, you no longer see the light. If photons were to be traveling in a chaotic manner, without a sense of direction, then we ... |
18 January 2010
02:11 GMT |
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While crickets, orangutans and whales indeed communicate differently, there is a common denominator between them, researchers say. A bird's chirp, a whale's clicks, and a primate's scream can be construed as different, but a new cross-species study has revealed that mathematical models can predict the ... |
6 January 2010
07:01 GMT |
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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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