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A very special student is attending a lesson at Moscow's school number 166: Stepan, a plastic robot, is in the classroom to help a little boy with leukaemia to follow the lesson through his eyes. http://phys.org/news214807756.html Electronics Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:20:01 EST news214807756 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new technology developed with help from Project Euclid at Cornell University Library makes it possible to display complex mathematics problems on Web pages. http://phys.org/news214036425.html Other Sciences Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:34:08 EST news214036425 The science of cardiovascular mathematics dates at least to the 1700s, when the pioneering Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a model for fluid dynamics while studying blood flow in arteries. http://phys.org/news211626387.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:06:39 EST news211626387 Mathematics researchers at the University of Adelaide are leading a new project aimed at improving the reliability and efficiency of Internet services. http://phys.org/news211469870.html Other Sciences Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:38:02 EST news211469870 Europe needs an Institute of Industrial Mathematics to tighten the link between maths and industry as an enabler of innovation – putting maths at the heart of Europe's innovation, according to the European Science Foundation in a report launched today in Brussels at the "Maths and Industry" Conference. http://phys.org/news210452385.html Other Sciences Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:59:56 EST news210452385 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges relevant to a host of subjects ranging from improving data compression to detecting gravitational waves. http://phys.org/news209145926.html Other Sciences Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:06:00 EST news209145926 The amount of time parents spend talking about numbers has a much bigger impact on how young children learn mathematics than was previously known, researchers at the University of Chicago have found. http://phys.org/news208523374.html Other Sciences Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:30:02 EST news208523374 Shing-Tung Yau sees a beautiful universe around him, crafted by nature into the shapes and forms we see every day. Mathematics describes those shapes and forms, the discipline of geometry in particular. So, to Yau, it shares nature’s beauty. http://phys.org/news205405704.html Other Sciences Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:08:33 EST news205405704 Ever wonder why it's such an effort to forget about work while on vacation or to silence that annoying song that's playing over and over in your head? http://phys.org/news204220333.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:30:08 EST news204220333 (PhysOrg.com) -- Many children, when learning to read, are encouraged by their teachers to retell all they remember about a story in order to build their comprehension skills. But can similar comprehension strategies be applied to mathematics? Researchers at North Carolina State University say that when teachers work with kids to talk through math problems, kids do a better job of absorbing and understanding the content. http://phys.org/news200068048.html Other Sciences Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:40:01 EST news200068048 Mathematicians from more than a dozen countries will gather at Case Western Reserve University next week to discuss the theoretical world of high dimensions. http://phys.org/news199705855.html Other Sciences Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:51:12 EST news199705855 Science is playing a significant role in today's news, including hot-button topics such as toxic waste disposal, global warming, emerging diseases and dozens of other critical concerns. Faced with these issues, there has never been a greater need for excellent science teachers who can prepare the next generation of Americans to genuinely comprehend and effectively deal with these and other scientific challenges ahead. http://phys.org/news199100552.html Other Sciences Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:20:03 EST news199100552 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) indicates that changes to the nature of the relationships between researchers and mathematics educators could benefit both. The report, Linking Research and Practice, is based on the work of 60 mathematics education researchers, teachers and other school-level educators who participated in 2008 conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation and developed by NCTM. http://phys.org/news198943046.html Other Sciences Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:30:02 EST news198943046 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematician Daniel Reynolds is using supercomputers to unravel the mysteries of the Big Bang. http://phys.org/news197816941.html Physics Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:09:43 EST news197816941 (AP) -- He said nyet to $1 million. Grigory Perelman, a reclusive Russian mathematics genius who made headlines earlier this year for not immediately embracing a lucrative math prize, has decided to decline the cash. http://phys.org/news197209671.html Other Sciences Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:28:30 EST news197209671 A new Northwestern University study of mentor-protege relationships has found something that parents and children have known for a long time: the generation gap is real, and it matters. It not only affects communication but also who mentors young mathematicians successfully and who does not. http://phys.org/news194702471.html Other Sciences Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:01:29 EST news194702471 They can't wait to do computational chemistry at a quadrillion calculations per second. http://phys.org/news191609210.html Technology Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:30:03 EST news191609210 Math teachers in the United States need better training if the nation's K-12 students are going to compete globally, according to international research released today by a Michigan State University scholar. http://phys.org/news190556990.html Other Sciences Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:50:05 EST news190556990 (AP) -- Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia - and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century. http://phys.org/news189101132.html Other Sciences Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:07:18 EST news189101132 Significant numbers of today's women and underrepresented minority chemists and chemical engineers (40 percent) say they were discouraged from pursuing a STEM career (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) at some point in their lives, according to a new Bayer Corporation survey. http://phys.org/news188480565.html Other Sciences Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:20:01 EST news188480565 (PhysOrg.com) -- It takes five men to change a light bulb*, even more to pack a shipping crate. After all, filling space is very hard. But a European project has developed tools to optimise packing problems in just a few seconds -- no joking... http://phys.org/news187609761.html Technology Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:10:04 EST news187609761 (PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research today unveiled a breakthrough method based on a mathematical algorithm that reduces the computational complexity, costs, and energy usage for analyzing the quality of massive amounts of data by two orders of magnitude. This new method will greatly help enterprises extract and use the data more quickly and efficiently to develop more accurate and predictive models. http://phys.org/news186341055.html Technology Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:10:01 EST news186341055 (PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists working with Los Angeles police are using sophisticated mathematics to identify and analyze urban crime patterns. http://phys.org/news186070236.html Other Sciences Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:11:09 EST news186070236 (PhysOrg.com) -- Role-playing games such as "World of Warcraft" could reverse the declining math proficiency of middle school students, Keith Devlin told an audience at the AAAS annual meeting in San Diego. http://phys.org/news186058705.html Other Sciences Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:10:01 EST news186058705 Parental influence and access to mathematics courses are likely to guide students to careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics or medicine (STEMM), according to research from Michigan State University. http://phys.org/news185943349.html Other Sciences Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:00:01 EST news185943349 The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that change is the only constant. People change, organizations change, the way people and institutions interact changes over time. Change affects social interactions and the natural world, and it even plays a role in how networks such as air traffic control and banking systems function. http://phys.org/news183807195.html Biology Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:33:37 EST news183807195 Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, research at the University of Chicago shows. http://phys.org/news183654828.html Other Sciences Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:50:01 EST news183654828 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth researchers Daniel Graham, James M. Hughes, and Dan Rockmore are combining their expertise in brain science, computer science, and mathematics to analyze a series of drawings from the 16th century by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. With their net skills, they've developed a way to analyze mathematically a drawing and quantify its artistic style. With this tool, works can be compared to help discriminate between authentic and imitation artwork. http://phys.org/news182166946.html Technology Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:56:17 EST news182166946 An international team of scientists from EPFL (Switzerland), INRIA (France), NTT (Japan), CWI (The Netherlands) and Bonn University (Germany), has obtained the prime factors of the RSA challenge number RSA-768, using the Number Field Sieve. http://phys.org/news182148600.html Other Sciences Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:50:55 EST news182148600 At least a dozen Alberta high-school calculus classrooms were exposed to the West Nile virus recently. http://phys.org/news180012327.html Other Sciences Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:50:02 EST news180012327