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Nine outstanding Cambridge scientists have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.

Recent data shows boys in years 5 and 9 in England have scored significantly higher than girls in maths and science compared with 2019, report UCL researchers who analysed the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). The findings, which use data from 2023, mirror results for many participating countries, where a gender gap has opened up in favour of boys since the last report, published in 2020 with data from 2019.

Developed from EPFL research, in collaboration with MIT and Yale, the combination of secure computation and distributed algorithms opens a new era for data collaborations in medical research.

A game of chess requires its players to think several moves ahead, a skill that computer programs have mastered over the years.

New Carnegie Mellon University research center pairs statisticians and researchers in the physical sciences to address complex, real-world problems The planet is warming, and much of the excess heat is absorbed into the ocean.

UCLA physicist John Miao pioneered a new form of microscopy with unprecedented precision and field of view Key takeaways Computational microscopy has rapidly advanced in the last quarter-century, enabling researchers to visualize the extremely small and ultrafast by applying advanced algorithms to interpret scattering patterns of photons and electrons.

Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev.

A chessboard knight can't reach a given square twice as fast as the king. Christian Táfula Santos has proved it, using the famous Fibonacci sequence.

The shape-shifting technological solution by Johns Hopkins researchers could be a game-changer for engineering designs Modeling how cars deform in a crash, how spacecraft respond to extreme environme

Pupils in years 5 and 9 in England have maintained or improved scores in maths and science compared to pre-pandemic results, report UCL researchers who analysed findings in the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

New framework advances experimental capabilities, including design and characterization, of microscale acoustic metamaterials. Acoustic metamaterials - architected materials that have tailored geometries designed to control the propagation of acoustic or elastic waves through a medium - have been studied extensively through computational and theoretical methods.

The coloured Cube has been around for 50 years. Its inventor, Erno Rubik, celebrated his 80th birthday this year.

Research Fellow Alexander V. Gheorghiu (UCL Computer Science) describes in The Conversation a new method of logic developed by philosophers, mathematicians and computer scientists that has implications for how AI operates.

But it isn't the biggest and mathematicians' search for perfection will continue Euclid proved there are an infinite number of primes millennia ago.

Can learning to count with your fingers early on help you solve maths problem' Can the static noise in your brain predict how good you are at maths' Can we use a novel portable tool to measure brainw

A team of astrophysicists, led by our Institute for Computational Cosmology, have developed a new model that could estimate how likely it is for intelligent life to emerge in our Universe and beyond.

It's not a bad thing if you pick a toasted bagel for breakfast, while your partner chooses eggs. In fact, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo, that difference could help you lose some weight.

Dr. Roberto Hernández Palomares grew up in a working-class family in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, where a career in mathematics often felt like an impossible dream.

A Mathlib developer at ISTA: Graduate student Martin Dvorák's 'side-project' Mathematics is an umbrella term uniting diverse disciplines with different conventions.

On 1 October, the TU Ilmenau is launching a junior research group that will be researching computationally efficient algorithms that are not installed as software on a conventional computer, as was previously the case, but are implemented as physical hardware.

Researchers from Bonn and Tübingen clarify the neuronal basis of the mathematical concept of "zero" Despite its importance for mathematics, the neuronal basis of the number zero in the human brain was previously unknown. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn and the University of Tübingen have now discovered that individual nerve cells in the medial temporal lobe recognize zero as a numerical value and not as a separate category "nothing".

Developing large-scale neural network models that mimic the brain's activity is a major goal in the field of computational neuroscience. Existing models that accurately reproduce aspects of brain activity are notoriously complex, and fine-tuning model parameters often requires significant time, intuition and expertise.

On Sept. OpenAI announced a new ChatGPT model that the company says is substantially better at math and science than previous versions, which struggled with reasoning.

Prestigious mathematics organization's satellite campus will offer research, study, collaboration opportunities Mathematicians like to put their heads together to solve tricky problems.