Mathematicians have successfully applied a new, pictorial approach to answer complex questions that puzzle analysts, such as, do media stories on firearm legislation influence gun sales? Cause-and-effect queries like this ...
General Physics
Nov 26, 2019
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Fleets of microscopic machines toil away in your cells, carrying out critical biological tasks and keeping you alive. By combining theory and experiment, researchers have discovered the surprising way one of these machines, ...
General Physics
Sep 2, 2019
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Too much inequality in society can result in a damaging lack of support for public goods and services, which could disadvantage the rich as well as the poor, according to new research from the University of Exeter Business ...
Social Sciences
Aug 14, 2019
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When anthropologists consider the origins of warfare, their evolutionary theories tend to boil it down to the resource-scarcity trifecta of food, territory and mates—three resources that would justify the loss of life and ...
Evolution
Jul 1, 2019
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A mathematician from the University of Bristol has found a solution to part of a 64-year old mathematical problem – expressing the number 33 as the sum of three cubes.
Mathematics
Apr 2, 2019
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The Big Bang theory and the question of how life on Earth began has fascinated scientists for decades, but now new research from The University of Western Australia suggests the conditions that resulted from the Big Bang ...
Astronomy
Nov 27, 2018
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After 10 years, Prof. Raimar Wulkenhaar from the University of Münster's Mathematical Institute and his colleague Dr. Erik Panzer from the University of Oxford have solved a mathematical equation which was considered to ...
Mathematics
Aug 7, 2018
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Engineers work in quantifiable realism—an object exists and can be measured. Sometimes, though, the certainty of the object and how it will behave wavers. Researchers from the Automatic Control and System Dynamics Laboratory ...
Engineering
Jun 26, 2018
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9
Game theory has long been used to apply mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers.
Mathematics
Oct 20, 2016
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21
A new generation of indestructible bridges could be possible, thanks to research from the University of Warwick.
Mathematics
Jul 13, 2016
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