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Mathematics News
October 7, 2020

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The Impact of Human Mobility on Disease Spread

Scientists have investigated the way in which human dispersal affects disease control and total extent of an infection's ...

Ecologists Confirm Alan Turing's Theory for Australian Fairy Circles

Fairy circles are one of nature's greatest enigmas and most visually stunning phenomena. Researchers have now collected detailed data to show that Alan Turing's model explains the striking vegetation ...

Theoretically, Two Layers Are Better Than One for Solar-Cell Efficiency

Solar cells have come a long way, but inexpensive, thin film solar cells are still far behind more expensive, crystalline solar cells in efficiency. Now, a team of researchers suggests that using two ...

Virtual Tourism Could Offer New Opportunities for Travel Industry, Travelers

A new proposal for virtual travel, using advanced mathematical techniques and combining livestream video with existing photos and videos of travel ...
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New Model Examines How Societal Influences Affect U.S. Political Opinions

Northwestern University researchers have developed the first quantitative model that captures how politicized environments affect U.S. political opinion formation and ...

When Does a Second COVID-19 Surge End? Look at the Data

Using data from all 50 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia, two mathematicians have developed a new method to analyze COVD-19 rates to help policymakers identify demonstrable turning points in ...

Online Training Helps Preemies

An international team of researchers has now found that computerized training can support preterm children's academic success. In their randomized controlled study 'Fit for School', ...

Thermodynamics of Computation: A Quest to Find the Cost of Running a Turing Machine

Turing machines are widely believed to be universal, in the sense that any computation done by any system can also be done by a Turing machine. In a new article, researchers present their work ...

U.S. Political Parties Become Extremist to Get More Votes

New mathematical modeling shows that U.S. political parties are becoming increasingly polarized due to their quest for voters -- not because voters themselves are becoming more ...

Mathematical Patterns Developed by Alan Turing Help Researchers Understand Bird Behavior

Scientists have used mathematical modelling to understand why flocks of long-tailed tits segregate themselves into different parts of the ...

Math Shows How Brain Stays Stable Amid Internal Noise and a Widely Varying World

A new theoretical framework shows that many properties of neural connections help biological circuits produce consistent ...

Grasshopper Jumping on Bloch Sphere Finds New Quantum Insights

New research has (pardon the pun) put a new spin on a mathematical analogy involving a jumping grasshopper and its ideal lawn shape. This work could help us understand the spin states of ...

Droplet Spread from Humans Doesn't Always Follow Airflow

If aerosol transmission of COVID-19 is confirmed to be significant, we will need to reconsider guidelines on social distancing, ventilation systems and shared spaces. Researchers in the U.K. believe ...

AI and Single-Cell Genomics

The study of cellular dynamics is crucial to understand how cells develop and how diseases progress. Scientist have now created 'scVelo' - a machine learning method and open source software ...

Healing an Achilles' Heel of Quantum Entanglement

Researchers have solved a 20-year-old problem in quantum information theory on how to calculate entanglement cost -- a way to measure entanglement -- in a manner that's efficiently computable, ...

Breakthrough Method for Predicting Solar Storms

Extensive power outages and satellite blackouts that affect air travel and the internet are some of the potential consequences of massive solar storms. These storms are believed to be caused by the ...

If Relaxed Too Soon, Physical Distancing Measures Might Have Been All for Naught

If physical distancing measures in the United States are relaxed while there is still no COVID-19 vaccine or treatment and while personal protective equipment remains in short supply, the number of ...

Can Social Unrest, Riot Dynamics Be Modeled?

Episodes of social unrest rippled throughout Chile in 2019. Researchers specializing in economics, mathematics and physics in Chile and the U.K. banded together to explore the surprising social ...

Marine Drifters: Interdisciplinary Study Explores Plankton Diversity

Researchers have combined mathematical models, marine science, and metagenomics to answer a decades-old question - why are there so many species in the ...

Mathematical Noodling Leads to New Insights Into an Old Fusion Problem

Scientists have gained new insight into a common type of plasma hiccup that interferes with fusion reactions. These findings could help bring fusion energy closer to ...

An Ethical Eye on AI

Researchers have found a mathematical means of helping regulators and business manage and police Artificial Intelligence systems' biases towards making unethical, and potentially very costly and ...

Smokers Good at Math Are More Likely to Want to Quit

For smokers who are better at math, the decision to quit just adds up, a new study suggests. Researchers found that smokers who scored higher on a test of math ability were more likely than others to ...

An Ant-Inspired Approach to Mathematical Sampling

Researchers have observed the exploratory behavior of ants to inform the development of a more efficient mathematical sampling ...

Achievement Isn't Why More Men Are Majoring in Physics, Engineering and Computer Science

Researchers have found that the reason there are more undergraduate men than women majoring in physics, engineering and computer science is not because men are higher achievers. On the contrary, the ...

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