Researchers find mathematical structure in biological complexity
What is and is not possible for natural evolution may be explained using models and calculations from theoretical physics, say researchers in Japan.
General Physics
May 29, 2020
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News tagged with mathematical physics
Machine-learning technology to track odd events among LHC data
Nowadays, artificial neural networks have an impact on many areas of our day-to-day lives. They are used for a wide variety of complex tasks, such as driving cars, performing speech recognition (for example, Siri, Cortana, ...
General Physics
Mar 9, 2020
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Better studying superconductivity in single-layer graphene
Made up of 2-D sheets of carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattices, graphene has been intensively studied in recent years. As well as the material's diverse structural properties, physicists have paid particular attention ...
Nanophysics
Dec 13, 2019
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Experiment measures velocity in 3-D
Many of today's scientific processes are simulated using computer-driven mathematical models. But for a model to accurately predict how air flow behaves at high speeds, for example, scientists need supplemental real life ...
General Physics
Oct 15, 2019
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Improving the signal-to-noise ratio in quantum chromodynamics simulations
Over the last few decades, the exponential increase in computer power and accompanying increase in the quality of algorithms has enabled theoretical and particle physicists to perform more complex and precise simulations ...
General Physics
Jul 18, 2019
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'The way you move': Body structure brings coordinated movement
A computer model shows that a starfish-like animal can coordinate rhythmic motion based on body structure without the brain telling them to do so. This provides insights useful for physiology and robotics.
Plants & Animals
Jul 12, 2019
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Team finds two theoretical physics models to be equivalent
Two Yale-NUS College undergraduates are part of a research team that concluded that two different mathematical models, which describe the same physical phenomenon, are essentially equivalent. The discovery could have implications ...
General Physics
Jan 29, 2018
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How mathematics reveals the nature of the cosmos
Let us discuss the very nature of the cosmos. What you may find in this discussion is not what you expect. Going into a conversation about the universe as a whole, you would imagine a story full of wondrous events such as ...
Mathematics
Jun 8, 2015
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Video: "Speleophysicist" uses physics to study the underground flow of water
To boldly go where no one has gone before – it's not science fiction to Matt Covington, an associate professor of geosciences at the University of Arkansas. After completing a doctoral degree in theoretical astrophysics, ...
Environment
Apr 17, 2015
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Russia's Yakov Sinai wins Abel mathematics prize
Russian mathematician Yakov Sinai won the prestigious Abel mathematics prize for his work in dynamical systems and mathematical physics, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters said Wednesday.
Mathematics
Mar 26, 2014
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