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Applications might range from general magnetism, such as developing sensors, to information encoding.

A new European network led by Dr Joanna Jordan at the University of Bath will enable mathematicians across the continent to work together to apply mathematics to a range of industrial problems from speeding up clinical trials of new drugs to improving the accuracy of weather forecasts.

Bats compare the volume of an echo in both left and right ears then turn away from the side receiving the loudest echo in order to avoid obstacles, new research from the University of Bristol, published today in PLOS Computational Biology, has found. Echolocating bats can fly through complex environments in complete darkness, swiftly and apparently effortless avoiding obstacles, but it is unclear exactly how they perform this feat.

International consortium of scientists conducting urgent research into rates of transmission Leprosy, Elephantiasis and Sleeping Sickness among nine tropical diseases targeted Neglected tropical diseases affect over one billion people worldwid The NTD Modelling Consortium argues that whilst new transmissions of these diseases are falling, new interventions may be needed to prevent transmission by 2025 The life chances of over one billion people

At this year's Pauli Lectures, mathematics professor Ingrid Daubechies will offer an insight into her research on wavelets and digital signal processing.

Ingrid Daubechies gives the Gauss Lecture of the German Mathematicians' Association.

Big-data analysis consists of searching for buried patterns that have some kind of predictive power.

Prof. Emeritus Raghavan Narasimhan, known for his analytical prowess in a distinguished career of more than four decades on the UChicago mathematics faculty, died Oct.

A statistician at the University of Sheffield has revealed the best strategy for winning TV show The Apprentice following in-depth analysis of the background and performance of previous contestants.

There's a huge difference between novice drivers and experienced drivers in accident statistics. Novice drivers are much higher risk.

Moore's Law, the observation that integrated circuits halve in size every two years, has been good to us.

The invention of groundbreaking new energy technologies will be faster and less costly as scientists use supercomputers to invent new materials and engineer their properties and behavior from basic scientific principles.

Machine learning, which is the basis for most commercial artificial-intelligence systems, is intrinsically probabilistic.

Stanford's Department of Public Safety has released the annual Stanford Safety, Security & Fire Report.

Phil Spiers, Head of Structural Testing at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, comments on the development of what could be the world's fastest car.

Barbara Grosz , Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has spent her career working to make human-computer interactions as fluent as human-to-human interaction.

Experimental science is evolving. With the advent of new technology, scientific facilities are collecting data at increasing rates and higher resolution. However, making sense of this data is becoming a major bottleneck. New mathematics and algorithms are needed to extract useful information from these experiments.

With summer on the way, pet owners are being warned not to let their dogs or cats become one of the estimated thousands of snakebite statistics recorded in Australia each year.

Yale University scientists have answered a 40-year-old question about Arctic ice thickness by treating the ice floes of the frozen seas like colliding molecules in a fluid or gas. Although today's highly precise satellites do a fine job of measuring the area of sea ice, measuring the volume has always been a tricky business.

Got rope? Then try this experiment: Cross both ends, left over right, then bring the left end under and out, as if tying a pair of shoelaces. If you repeat this sequence, you get what's called a "granny" knot. If, instead, you cross both ends again, this time right over left, you've created a sturdier "reef" knot.

The technology behind 3-D printing is growing more and more common, but the ability to create designs for it is not.

The deteriorating outlook for the Chinese economy poses the biggest immediate threat to Australia's export markets and thus to Australia's GDP.

Carnegie Mellon University's Simon Initiative has hired Kimberly P. Law as a learning engineer.

Enrolment for the first ever places at a pioneering new school's Sixth Form begins tomorrow, as students across Birmingham receive their GCSE results.

After an impressive 11-game winning streak that thrilled longtime fans and attracted new ones, the Toronto Blue Jays faced the Yankees on August 14 with great expectations from the stands.

Students celebrated their AS level results today at King's College London Mathematics School, with over 97% attaining an A grade in Mathematics.

Ask enough scholars to explain their work, and sometimes surprising descriptions will emerge. "My thesis was on the estimation of persistence, how much you remember from the past," MIT Associate Professor Anna Mikusheva says of her PhD dissertation.

As humans have evolved, so has our capacity to think rationally and use resources wisely - right? Not necessarily. According to Cornell research, careful, deliberate decision-making is in constant competition with the more knee-jerk type of behavior. Cornell mathematicians have developed a theoretical model to study the dynamics between "thinking fast and slow" - the distinction between human cognitive processing that is quick and intuitive, versus slow and rational.

Q&A with Jonathan Pillow on dissecting the brain using math and neuroscience Posted August 10, 2015; 02:00 p.m. by Catherine Zandonella, Office of the Dean for Research The brain is the ultimate big-data problem. Its billions of neurons give rise to numerous abilities, such as making decisions, interpreting color and even recognizing your best friend.

A Yale University astronomer has helped untangle the cosmic knots of stars at the center of giant, elliptical galaxies. Two studies, one led by Yale's Grant Tremblay and other led by Michigan State University researcher Megan Donahue, are providing new information about why the universe's largest elliptical galaxies ratchet down their star production despite having plenty of available star-making material.

National institute for the development and use of advanced mathematics, computer science, algorithms and 'Big Data' has announced its first director, and will start research activities in the autumn.

David Bindel , assistant professor of computer science, and Amanda Hood, a Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Gordon Wetzstein's new Stanford Computational Imaging Group has developed a light-field stereoscope that creates a dramatically more natural virtual reality experience than what is present in today's leading headsets.

The uncertainties surrounding the Chinese economy pose the biggest immediate threat to Australia's export markets and thus to Australia's GDP.

A new approach to exploring the spread of contagious diseases or the latest celebrity gossip has been tested using London's street and underground networks. Results from the new approach could help to predict when a contagion will spread through space as a simple wave (as in the Black Death) and when long-range connections, such as air travel, enable it to seemingly jump over long distances and emerge in locations far from an initial outbreak.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Marijuana use in teenagers is on the rise, while cigarette and alcohol use are stable or declining, according to health statistics researchers. In particular, black teens are using more marijuana than in recent decades. "Our analysis shows that public health campaigns are working - fewer teens are smoking cigarettes," said Stephanie Lanza, professor of biobehavioral health , and scientific director, The Methodology Center , Penn State.

Sussex to honour inventor of algorithm behind Google's PageRank engine The Hove-based inventor of one of the world's most important mathematical algorithms is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex this morning (Thursday 16 July).

Imagine you are an asthma sufferer who works in a downtown Chicago office building. One morning, the weatherman warns of a high pollen count, but with no details beyond the city's overall pollen level that day.

Random-access memory, or RAM, is where computers like to store the data they're working on. A processor can retrieve data from RAM tens of thousands of times more rapidly than it can from the computer's disk drive.

The design process for vehicle manufacturers could to be improved thanks to the launch of new computer software that predicts the effects of airflow.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Eye doctors soon could use computing power to help them see individual cells in the back of a patient's eye, thanks to imaging technology developed by engineers at the University of Illinois.

Chances of winning the Lottery set to be lower than ever, says Sussex mathematician The National Lottery is introducing more numbers and bigger jackpots in major changes to the game this autumn, but a Sussex statistician says that the chances of scooping the big prize are smaller than ever.

A new £1.75m fund to support visionary and pioneering pure mathematics at the University of Manchester was announced today, funded from the Estate of Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw.