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Model suggests voter turnout alone can predict election victory margins
Elections are a well-documented example of collective human decision-making, with voting data available for elections globally over several decades. SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Aanjaneya Kumar, along with former colleagues ...
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Feb 17, 2025
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AI program plays the long game to solve decades-old math problems
A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the years. Back in 1996, an IBM supercomputer famously beat the then world chess champion Garry Kasparov. ...
Mathematics
Feb 12, 2025
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Can math save content creators? A new model proposes fairer revenue distribution methods for streaming services
As more consumers turn to subscription-based platforms, the distribution of revenue in streaming services has become a crucial issue in the digital economy. Content creators and artists argue that the current models are opaque, ...
Mathematics
Feb 12, 2025
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Scientists analyze branch patterns in trees and art, from da Vinci to Mondrian
The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees.
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Feb 11, 2025
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The butterfly effect: This obscure mathematical concept has become an everyday idea, but do we have it all wrong?
In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?"
Mathematics
Feb 6, 2025
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Risk it or kick it? Research analyzes NFL coaches' risk tolerance on fourth down
During the Super Bowl, every decision matters. With millions of fans watching, the game often comes down to a single play call. And no call is more scrutinized than what a coach decides to do on fourth down. Punt? Attempt ...
Mathematics
Feb 6, 2025
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Spanish 'running of the bulls' festival reveals crowd movements can be predictable, above a certain density
The collective motion of large crowds may be predictable past a certain density of people in a given area, according to a study published in Nature. The findings, based on four years of observations at a traditional Spanish ...
Mathematics
Feb 5, 2025
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Kids use different math skills at work vs. school, India study shows
In India, many kids who work in retail markets have good math skills. They can quickly perform a range of calculations to complete transactions. But as a new study shows, these kids often perform much worse on the same kinds ...
Mathematics
Feb 5, 2025
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Parents' math anxiety linked to lower numeracy skills in children
New research findings reveal that parents' anxiety about mathematics can have a negative impact on their children's early numeracy skills, influencing their performance in the subject as they progress through school.
Mathematics
Feb 3, 2025
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Barbecue grill approach helps researchers understand puzzling Rayleigh–Bloch waves
So-called Rayleigh–Bloch waves can release an enormous amount of energy that can damage technical systems under certain circumstances. They only exist below a precisely defined cut-off frequency; above this, they disappear ...
Mathematics
Feb 3, 2025
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Scientists map the mathematics behind how we create and innovate
A new study in Nature Communications explores the dynamics of higher-order novelties, identifying fascinating patterns in how we combine existing elements to create novelty, potentially reshaping our understanding of human ...

Simple mathematical model predicts development of cultural structures observed in human societies
How clans form and evolve within human societies has been modeled using a simple computer model developed by a RIKEN researcher and a collaborator. This demonstration opens the way to modeling complex human social phenomena ...
Mathematics
Jan 23, 2025
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Art analysis: 2D multifractal tools examine Jackson Pollock's expressionism
The temperature changes hour to hour and day to day; exchange rates behave no differently. Wherever studies of the variability of similar one-dimensional time series are concerned, analyses based on multifractals have managed ...
Mathematics
Jan 16, 2025
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Mathematical technique 'opens the black box' of AI decision-making
Western researchers have developed a novel technique using math to understand exactly how neural networks make decisions—a widely recognized but poorly understood process in the field of machine learning.
Mathematics
Jan 13, 2025
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English children lag behind in geometry, but parents can help them learn through play
Geometry is an important branch of mathematics, which we use to understand the properties of 2D and 3D space such as distance, shape, size and position. We use geometry every day: cutting paper to wrap a present, calculating ...
Mathematics
Jan 7, 2025
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Mathematicians develop new method to forecast natural phenomena and detect early cancer development
Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are central to both pure and applied mathematics. Any quantity which changes in space and time will satisfy certain partial differential equations because the laws of nature, and the ...
Mathematics
Jan 6, 2025
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Historian explains how economics research stumbled under Soviet regime, while mathematics thrived
Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a paper appearing in the Journal of Economic Literature , the historian of economics at Radboud University explores ...
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Jan 6, 2025
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How does a hula hoop master gravity? Mathematicians prove that body shape matters
Hula hooping is so commonplace that we may overlook some interesting questions it raises: "What keeps a hula hoop up against gravity?" and "Are some body types better for hula hooping than others?" A team of mathematicians ...
Mathematics
Jan 2, 2025
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Researcher calculates Santa's speed on Christmas Eve—and this is what it would do to Rudolph's nose
With billions of children around the world anxiously waiting for their presents, Father Christmas (or Santa) and his reindeer must be traveling at breakneck speeds to deliver them all in one night.
Mathematics
Dec 24, 2024
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Algebraic geometry offers fresh solution to data center energy inefficiency
The manic pace of sharing, storing, securing, and serving data has a manic price—power consumption. To counter this, Virginia Tech mathematicians are leveraging algebraic geometry to target the inefficiencies of data centers.
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Dec 23, 2024
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