• Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion
    Thursday, August 4, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers discovered that congestion control algorithms designed to ensure multiple users sending data over a network do so fairly are actually unable to avoid situations where some users are hogging all the bandwidth.
  • Women are better at statistics than they think
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from Phys.org: Mathematics News
    Women in statistics classes do better academically than men over a semester despite having more negative attitudes regarding their own abilities, according to our recent study in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.
  • Statistics expert says consider the odds ahead of Friday's Mega Millions lottery
    Friday, July 29, 2022 from Phys.org: Mathematics News
    With Friday night's Mega Millions jackpot having ballooned to $1.02 billion, people in eligible states across the country are no doubt considering purchasing a ticket or two.
  • The Elusive Origin of Zero
    Thursday, July 28, 2022 from Scientific American - Math
    Who decided that nothing should be something?
  • A key role for quantum entanglement
    Wednesday, July 27, 2022 from Math Puzzles News -- ScienceDaily
    A method known as quantum key distribution has long held the promise of communication security unattainable in conventional cryptography. An international team of scientists has now demonstrated experimentally, for the first time, an...
  • Seeing the light: Researchers develop new AI system using light to learn associatively
    Tuesday, July 26, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have developed an on-chip optical processor capable of detecting similarities in datasets up to 1,000 times faster than conventional machine learning algorithms running on electronic processors.
  • Did you solve it? Blockbusters!
    Monday, July 25, 2022 from Science: Mathematics | theguardian.com
    The answer to today’s percolation poser Earlier today I asked you the following problem about a hexagonal grid similar to the one that was used in Blockbusters, a student quiz show from the 1980s and 1990s. The grid is also a model of...
  • Does Amber Heard really have the world's most beautiful face? Why the Golden Ratio test is bogus
    Monday, July 25, 2022 from Phys.org: Mathematics News
    Amber Heard has one of the world's most beautiful faces—that is, according to cosmetic surgeon Julian De Silva. The claim has been recycled for some years now, and recently resurfaced in the wake of Heard's (widely reported) trial with...
  • Can you solve it? Blockbusters!
    Monday, July 25, 2022 from Science: Mathematics | theguardian.com
    Can I have a P please Bob? UPDATE: You can read the solution here In the much-missed student quiz show Blockbusters, teenagers would ask host Bob Holness for a letter from a hexagonal grid. How we laughed when a contestant asked for a P!...
  • How Florence Nightingale Changed Data Visualization Forever
    Saturday, July 23, 2022 from Scientific American - Math
    The celebrated nurse improved public health through her groundbreaking use of graphic storytelling
  • From in-crowds to power couples, network science uncovers the hidden structure of community dynamics
    Friday, July 22, 2022 from Phys.org: Mathematics News
    The world is a networked place, literally and figuratively. The field of network science is used today to understand phenomena as diverse as the spread of misinformation, West African trade and protein-protein interactions in cells.
  • Software program allows simultaneous viewing of tissue images through dimensionality reduction
    Thursday, July 21, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Imaging of tissue specimens is an important aspect of translational research that bridges the gap between basic laboratory science and clinical science to improve the understanding of cancer and aid in the development of new therapies....
  • Deep learning for new alloys
    Wednesday, July 20, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists discover new high-entropy alloys. XSEDE allocations on TACC's Stampede2 supercomputer supported density function theory calculations for largest database yet of high-entropy alloy...
  • Alexa and Siri, listen up! Teaching machines to really hear us
    Wednesday, July 20, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    The implications of new AI voice research go beyond user experience to making AI more efficient, which could change the industry and significantly reduce carbon footprints.
  • Idea of ice age 'species pump' in the Philippines boosted by new way of drawing evolutionary trees
    Wednesday, July 20, 2022 from Statistics News -- ScienceDaily
    A groundbreaking Bayesian method and new statistical analyses of genomic data from geckos in the Philippines shows that during the ice ages, the timing of gecko diversification gives strong statistical support for the first time to the...
  • 'Pulling back the curtain' to reveal a molecular key to The Wizard of Oz
    Wednesday, July 20, 2022 from Math Puzzles News -- ScienceDaily
    Many people and companies worry about sensitive data getting hacked, so encrypting files with digital keys has become more commonplace. Now, researchers have developed a durable molecular encryption key from sequence-defined polymers...
  • New model predicts how temperature affects life from quantum to classical scales
    Tuesday, July 19, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Mathematics News
    A new theory explains how every process depends on temperature. This theory could help researchers make accurate predictions in a range of areas, including biological responses to climate change, the spread of infectious diseases, and...
  • Go with the flow: New findings about moving electricity could improve fusion devices
    Tuesday, July 19, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Mathematics News
    Researchers have found that updating a mathematical model to include a physical property known as resistivity could lead to the improved design of doughnut-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks.
  • New approach to exposing illegal and informal mercury trading
    Tuesday, July 19, 2022 from Phys.org: Mathematics News
    The Minamata Convention (MC) aims to restrict and limit the trading of mercury, a highly toxic pollutant. While most countries involved in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM), the biggest source of mercury pollution, are MC...
  • It Doesn't Add Up: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Rails Against 'Woke Math'
    Saturday, July 16, 2022 from Mathematics on Huffington Post
    The Republican's bizarre about kids being taught "2 + 2 equals: Well, how do you feel about that?” was part of his latest attack on public education.
  • Researchers develop computer model to predict whether a pesticide will harm bees
    Wednesday, July 13, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to help protect bees from pesticides.
  • A robot learns to imagine itself
    Wednesday, July 13, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have created a robot that is able to learn a model of its entire body from scratch, without any human assistance. In a new study, the researchers demonstrate how their robot created a kinematic model of itself, and then used...
  • Could a computer diagnose Alzheimer's disease and dementia?
    Monday, July 11, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have developed a new tool that could automate the process of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and eventually allow it to move online.
  • Did you solve it? The Fields medals for beginners
    Monday, July 11, 2022 from Science: Mathematics | theguardian.com
    The answers to today’s puzzles Earlier today I set you three problems, inspired by the 2022 Fields medals. The prizes – which every four years go to up to four mathematicians under 40 – are the most famous award in mathematics. Maryna...
  • Can you solve it? The Fields medals for beginners
    Monday, July 11, 2022 from Science: Mathematics | theguardian.com
    Problems inspired by maths’ biggest prize UPDATE: you can now read the solutions here The winners of maths’ most high-profile prize, the Fields Medal, were announced last week . The award, which every four years goes to up to four...
  • The Guardian view on maths and poetry: seeing the world another way | Editorial
    Friday, July 8, 2022 from Science: Mathematics | theguardian.com
    Hours at a desk aren’t necessarily the key to success – ask June Huh, the would-be poet who has won the Fields medal for mathematics June Huh, a poet manqué who says he struggles to do more than three hours’ focused work a day, this week...
  • A 'wise counsel' for synthetic biology
    Friday, July 8, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers develop user-friendly software system to optimize biological systems.
  • Should Machines Replace Mathematicians?
    Friday, July 8, 2022 from Scientific American - Math
    A “replication crisis” in mathematics raises questions about the purpose of knowledge
  • COVID-19 virus spike protein flexibility improved by human cell's own modifications
    Tuesday, July 5, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers created atomic-level models of the spike protein that plays a key role in COVID-19 infection and immunity, revealing how the protein bends and moves as it seeks to engage receptors.
  • Ukrainian Mathematician Becomes Second Woman to Win Prestigious Fields Medal
    Tuesday, July 5, 2022 from Scientific American - Math
    Maryna Viazovska, who works on the geometry of spheres, is one of four winners of the coveted prize this year
  • Maryna Viazovska, Ukrainian Fields winner 'changed forever' by war
    Tuesday, July 5, 2022 from Phys.org: Mathematics News
    Ukrainian maths professor Maryna Viazovska, who on Tuesday won the top mathematics prize, the Fields Medal, said her life "changed forever" when Russia invaded her home country.
  • Duminil-Copin, Fields-winning mathematician with 'aesthetic vision'
    Tuesday, July 5, 2022 from Phys.org: Mathematics News
    Hugo Duminil-Copin, a French mathematician whose visual approach helped him win the world's most prestigious mathematics prize the Fields Medal on Tuesday, said he "doesn't really fit into the cliches of a genius".
  • Ukrainian mathematician awarded prestigious Fields Medal
    Tuesday, July 5, 2022 from Phys.org: Mathematics News
    Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska was named Tuesday as one of four recipients of the prestigious Fields Medal, which is often described as the Nobel Prize in mathematics.
  • Fields medal: Kyiv-born professor and Oxford expert among winners
    Tuesday, July 5, 2022 from Science: Mathematics | theguardian.com
    Maryna Viazovska’s work on packing spheres and James Maynard’s solving of prime number conundrum honoured in Helsinki A Ukrainian mathematician who proved the best way to pack spheres in eight dimensions to take up the least space, and...
  • Advocating a new paradigm for electron simulations
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Mathematics News
    Researchers improve a widely used simulation method for high-performance computing clusters.
  • 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians
    Friday, July 1, 2022 from plus.maths.org
    Here's our coverage from the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022, including the Fields Medals and other prizes.
  • Mathematicians Are Trying to 'Hear' Shapes--And Reach Higher Dimensions
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Scientific American - Math
    An intriguing question about drums kicked off decades of inquiry -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  • Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have created a taxonomy and outlined steps that developers can take to design features in machine-learning models that are easier for decision-makers to understand.
  • Big Snake Little Snake by DBC Pierre review – like a pub conversation about life, fate and the universe
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Science: Mathematics | theguardian.com
    The Booker prize-winner continues to indulge himself in a rage against metrics – but after a couple of decades of choppy form, that’s not necessarily a bad thing Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast DBC...
  • Algorithm predicts crime a week in advance, but reveals bias in police response
    Thursday, June 30, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    A new computer model uses publicly available data to predict crime accurately in eight U.S. cities, while revealing increased police response in wealthy neighborhoods at the expense of less advantaged areas.
  • Did you solve it? Are you smart enough to work for Elon Musk?
    Monday, June 27, 2022 from Science: Mathematics | theguardian.com
    The answers to today’s planetary perplexities Earlier today I set you the following problem, which was Elon Musk’s favourite interview question for engineers applying to work at SpaceX (according to his biographer Ashlee Vance). You’re...
  • The heat is on: Traces of fire uncovered dating back at least 800,000 years
    Monday, June 27, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Scientists reveal an advanced, innovative method that they have developed and used to detect nonvisual traces of fire dating back at least 800,000 years -- one of the earliest known pieces of evidence for the use of fire. The newly...
  • The mathematics of human behavior: How a new model can spot liars and counter disinformation
    Monday, June 27, 2022 from Phys.org: Mathematics News
    Understanding the human mind and behavior lies at the core of the discipline of psychology. But to characterize how people's behavior changes over time, I believe psychology alone is insufficient—and that additional mathematical ideas...
  • Can you solve it? Are you smart enough to work for Elon Musk?
    Monday, June 27, 2022 from Science: Mathematics | theguardian.com
    The favourite interview question of the world’s richest man UPDATE: Solutions are now posted here In the early years of rocket company SpaceX, CEO Elon Musk liked to set job applicants the following problem: You’re standing on the...
  • Topology and machine learning reveal hidden relationship in amorphous silicon
    Friday, June 24, 2022 from Statistics News -- ScienceDaily
    Fine-tuning the thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon used in technologies such as solar cells and image sensors should become much easier thanks to the computational topology and machine-learning-assisted discovery of the...
  • New deep learning model helps the automated screening of common eye disorders
    Friday, June 24, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Automation in disease diagnosis is reliant on deep learning models that can accurately and efficiently identify measurements of tumors, tissue volume, or other sorts of abnormalities. Now, researchers have unveiled a new, resource-light...
  • A new model sheds light on how we learn motor skills
    Friday, June 24, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Mathematics News
    Researchers have developed a mathematical model of motor learning that reflects the motor learning process in the human brain. Their findings suggest that motor exploration -- that is, increased variability in movements -- is important...
  • Methods from weather forecasting can be adapted to assess risk of COVID-19 exposure
    Thursday, June 23, 2022 from Mathematical Modeling News -- ScienceDaily
    Engineers can adapt weather forecasting models to give individuals a personalized assessment of their risk of exposure to COVID-19 or other diseases.
  • Math model predicts efficacy of drug treatments for heart attacks
    Friday, June 17, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Mathematics News
    Researchers used mice to develop a mathematical model of a myocardial infarction. The new model predicts several useful new drug combinations that may one day help treat heart attacks, according to researchers.
  • New, highly tunable composite materials--with a twist
    Tuesday, June 14, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Mathematics News
    Mathematicians have found that they can design a range of composite materials from moiré patterns created by rotating and stretching one lattice relative to another. Their electrical and other physical properties can change --s ometimes...
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