A simple model developed by a RIKEN researcher and a collaborator predicts the emergence of self-organized institutions that manage limited resources such as fisheries or irrigation water. This model provides a window into ...
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It might start as a joke, a belief, or a rumor. At first, it's easy to dismiss. But then it gains a twist, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. What causes some ideas to die out while others take over the internet?
Mathematics
Aug 21, 2025
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An EPFL study has found that urban areas follow the same universal rules observed in the natural world. From population size to carbon emissions and road networks—could the key to sustainable urbanization lie in the very ...
Mathematics
Aug 21, 2025
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Have you ever noticed that a natural conversation flows like a dance—pauses, emphases, and turns arriving just in time? A new study has discovered that this isn't just intuition; there is a biological rhythm embedded in our ...
Mathematics
Aug 20, 2025
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Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came before it—as the Fibonacci ...
Mathematics
Aug 20, 2025
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They feel like lightning—sudden, brilliant and seemingly impossible to predict. But according to new research, those mind-flashing "aha" moments of insight may leave detectable traces before they strike.
Mathematics
Aug 18, 2025
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How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the mathematicians Claudia Fevola from ...
Mathematics
Aug 13, 2025
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During 2024, onlookers observed a startling sight on China's Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the "matrix tide," this complex wave pattern was caused by the river's famed tidal bores that surge upstream ...
Mathematics
Aug 13, 2025
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A group of UBC Okanagan students has helped create technology that could improve how doctors and scientists detect everything from tumors to wildfires.
Mathematics
Aug 11, 2025
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What happens when things combine? This question lies at the heart of the Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequality (BBL), a mathematical relation widely applied across many fields of mathematics, science and beyond.
Mathematics
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