News tagged with mathematics research
Mathematical physics reveal nature's formula for survival (w/ Video)
(Phys.org) -- The vascular system of a leaf provides its structure and delivers its nutrients. When you light up that vascular structure with some fluorescent dye and view it using time-lapse photography, details begin to ...
May 14, 2012 |
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Rapid tsunami warning by means of GPS
For submarine earthquakes that can generate tsunamis, the warning time for nearby coastal areas is very short. Using high-precision analysis of GPS data from the Fukushima earthquake of 11 March 2011, scientists ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Louisiana Tech University, LA-SiGMA help teachers transform materials science
Teachers from school districts in north Louisiana are helping to advance the frontiers of science by conducting research with faculty from Louisiana Tech University's College of Engineering and Science and using supercomputers ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Human gender roles influence research on animals
In a recent study published in Animal Behavior, biology researchers Kristina Karlsson Green and Josefin Madjidian at Lund University in Sweden have shown that animals' and plants' traits and behavior in sexual conflicts are co ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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New report urges broad changes in mathematics education relationships
(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. ...
Jul 21, 2010 |
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How the brain recognizes objects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research have developed a new mathematical model to describe how the human brain visually identifies objects. The model accurately predicts ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Software's take on the light bulb joke
(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 ...
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Putting math problems in proper order
Mathematics is driven by the quest to solve problems and today the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) announces a new tool to help attack those questions. Research problems can take decades or centuries to answer, with ...
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Underground lines that bypass monuments
A team of mathematicians from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Seville has created a method to design underground lines whereby a city's historical buildings are unaffected. The ...
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Open source DNA
A new mathematical tool from Dr. Eran Halperin of TAU's Blavatnik School of Computer Science aims to protect genetic privacy while giving genomic data to researchers.
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Assembling the virtual human
It could mean the end of animal testing and eventually even clinical patient drug trials. The Virtual Physiological Human is a 21st century pan-European project that's gaining momentum and takes a major step forward this ...
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Computer model predicts brain tumor growth and evolution
Researchers from Brown University and other institutions have developed a computational computer model of how brain tumors grow and evolve.
May 18, 2009 |
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Physics, math provide clues to unraveling cancer
Biology exists in a physical world. That's a fact cancer researchers are beginning to recognize as they look to include concepts of physics and mathematics in their efforts to understand how cancer develops -- and how to ...
Jan 30, 2009 |
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