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How does today's weather compare with what was forecast a week or even a day ago? Is that torrential Nor'easter that was predicted in fact just a light drizzle' Has the sun, projected to emerge from the clouds at 11 a.m.

Baseball legend Satchel Paige, one of the greatest pitcher in the history of the sport, had a simple philosophy when it came to pitching: Keep the ball away from the bat.

President Trump's first 100 days in office continue to raise eyebrows and put policy makers and economists on edge.

The illustration relates the phase transition to the change between mathematical Mobius transformations (a, b, and c).

Kevin Zhou wants to tell new stories about the physical world we inhabit. 'My life plan has always been to eventually become a theoretical physicist,' says the MIT senior.

A $700,000 National Science Foundation grant will fund a consortium of Midwest institutions to stimulate innovative materials science research. The electric cars, manned spacecraft and must-have devices of tomorrow all will be built with discoveries made today in materials science. But to find the alloys, nanomaterials and polymers that will enable these future technologies requires scaling up how researchers store, share, analyze and sift through the surge of materials data from academia, national facilities and industry.

Many farms in drought-prone regions of the U.S. rely on drip irrigation as a water-saving method to grow crops.

Pupils from Cwmclydach Primary School in Rhondda Cynon Taf had the opportunity to conduct 'real-life' scientific experiments as part of a chemistry workshop held at the school.

Özlem Imamoglu has been fascinated by the hidden properties of numbers since she was a child. The ETH professor is also committed to helping more women pursue careers in mathematics.

New Stanford study describes a model for designing novel materials used in electrical storage devices, such as car batteries and capacitors. This approach may dramatically accelerate discovery of new materials that provide cheap and efficient ways to store energy. Research led by a Stanford scientist promises to increase the performance of high-power electrical storage devices, such as car batteries.

Cutting-edge research in statistics is being transferred into our everyday lives, by the brand-new Applied Statistics and Risk Unit (AS&RU) at the University of Warwick - which was officially opened yesterday.

Evan Denmark acted in a lot of high school productions. Looking back, the biggest challenge of his theater career in Sandwich, Massachusetts, wasn't performing in front of an audience - it was sticking to his scripted lines.

A new study from The University of Nottingham will look at the effectiveness of a professional development programme in helping to improve the results of GCSE maths resits.

Oxford researchers are taking part in an international study to film the teaching of quadratic equations for secondary school pupils.

It is well known that as plants grow, their stems and shoots respond to outside signals like light and gravity.

An Imperial mathematician is leading a new five-year program to test and improve predictive policing and tackle other challenges for future cities.

Scientists have found the seasonal 'fingerprints' of Arctic sea ice, El Nino, and other climate phenomena in a new study that probes the global interactions between weather and climate. Although the terms are often used interchangeably, weather and climate are different. Weather can be reasonably well predicted up to a week in advance, and is characterized by its daily dynamics.

Alumnus Professor Francis Allotey is working with Imperial to create a network of maths researchers in developing countries.

The Brain Prize for 2017, worth '1m, has been awarded to Professor Peter Dayan (UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit), Professor Ray Dolan (UCL Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry an

Data collection and analysis is becoming increasingly important in today's world. This is particularly true for the economic and societal development of poorer nations.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Timing the harvest and transport of highly perishable, hand-picked crops such as strawberries so these delicate products reach consumers at peak flavor and freshness is an intricate dance that partners Mother Nature with manual labor.

Seven researchers from the University of Bristol will present their work to a range of politicians and a panel of judges as part of a national competition on Monday [13 March] . STEM for BRITAIN is a poster competition in the House of Commons involving 210 early stage or early career researchers. The seven Bristol candidates were shortlisted from hundreds of applicants and are in with the chance of winning a gold, silver or bronze medal and up to £3,000 in each of the five subject categories.

Imagine stepping into your lab to find that you have captured your very own star on which to conduct research.

A new software tool can help reduce the risk of triggering manmade earthquakes by calculating the probability that oil and gas production activities will trigger slip in nearby faults.

Timothy Newhouse, an assistant professor of chemistry, and Pincelli Hull, an assistant professor of geology and geophysics, are among 126 U.S. and Canadian researchers who were awarded a $60,000 Sloan Research Fellowship to advance their work.

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As New Jersey drivers approach the George Washington Bridge to enter New York City, a digital sign flashes overhead with estimates of the delays on the upper and lower levels of the bridge.

A new programme investigating how data can make vital infrastructures safer will be led by Imperial mathematician Professor Mark Girolami. The Alan Turing Institute-Lloyd's Register Foundation data-centric engineering programme will focus on fundamental research and real-world problems, from improving airplane safety to stabilising bridges.

Surfers aren't the only people trying to catch big waves. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are trying to do so, too, at least in wave climate forecasts. Tropical cyclones are seen generating high waves in real-time within the high-resolution, 25-km model (right side).

The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming people's chief means of interacting with their principal computing devices.

Specially engineered materials are getting a boost as Imperial mathematicians partner with a company in Switzerland to improve design algorithms.

Human-caused greenhouse gas emissions over the past 45 years have increased the rate of temperature rise to 1.7 degrees Celsius per century, dwarfing the natural background rate. Humans are causing the climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces, new research co-led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found.

Counterfeit chargers for portable electronics are a major problem. At the end of 2016, Apple claimed that of 100 Apple-branded charging accessories it bought on Amazon, 90 were counterfeits.

"There is still an attitude that women don't quite cut it.

ANN ARBOR'When a material is made, you typically cannot change whether that material is hard or soft.

Metamaterials - materials whose function is determined by structure, not composition - have been designed to bend light and sound, transform from soft to stiff, and even dampen seismic waves from earthquakes.

Using a novel approach for computing real-time game strategy, engineers have developed an artificial Ms. Pac-Man player that chomps the existing high score for computerized play. In the popular arcade game, Ms. Pac-Man must evade ghost enemies while she collects items and navigates an obstacle-populated maze.

Participants from multiple universities, including Penn State, attend the kickoff meeting at Stanford University to discuss the $20 million, five-year project with the U.S. Department of Energy.

At TU Wien, an alternative for resource intensive formwork for the construction of concrete domes was developed.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A theory that uses the mathematics of a drunken walk describes ecological invasions better than waves, according to Tim Reluga, associate professor of mathematics and biology, Penn State. The ability to predict the movement of an ecological invasion is important because it determines how resources should be spent to stop an invasion in its tracks.