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Two Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been awarded 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships.

It turns out that the type, how frequent, and where new mutations occur in the human genome depends on which DNA building blocks are nearby, found researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in an advanced online study published this week in Nature Genetics .

The National Science Foundation has awarded Carnegie Mellon University's Jing Lei and Ryan Tibshirani Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards.

Planning algorithms are widely used in logistics and control. They can help schedule flights and bus routes, guide autonomous robots, and determine control policies for the power grid, among other things.

Joanne Leung/UCLA Jeff Eldredge, a professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been working with the UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education on developing a computational model of a human airway to help surgeons decide how best to treat sleep apnea.

Weihong Ni is a PhD candidate in the Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (IFAM)  in the University's Department of Mathematical Sciences : "I came to Liverpool more than 6 years ago as

Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have developed a new type of radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that is virtually impossible to hack.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) should hold official interest rates steady in February despite the weakening global economic outlook and turmoil in global markets at the start of 2016, the ANU RBA Shadow Board has found.

A team of international researchers including scientists from Oxford University has found that HIV is still replicating in lymphoid tissue even when it is undetectable in the blood of patients on antiretroviral drugs. The findings provide a critical new perspective on how HIV persists in the body despite potent antiretroviral therapy.

From the Arab Spring to the successful leadership bid by Jeremy Corbyn or Donald Trump's success in the US Republican campaign: Why are so many surprising things happening in politics? New research by the University of Oxford and University College London has harnessed a wealth of digital data and techniques to try to answer this question.

If you're thinking of creating a massive conspiracy, you may be better scaling back your plans, according to an Oxford University researcher. While we can all keep a secret, a study by Dr David Robert Grimes suggests that large groups of people sharing in a conspiracy will very quickly give themselves away.

Some future U of'T students might find it a little less crowded getting to the downtown Toronto campus by subway if Mayor John Tory 's SmartTrack transit plan is implemented.

Imperial researchers have been given a funding boost to convert healthcare data into useful tools for doctors, using mathematics.

L anding a jump on ice takes confidence and skill, not to mention courage. Years of training and preparation culminates in a make-or-break moment that can end in triumph or catastrophe.

Two Lotto winners sharing £66m jackpot aimed high as Sussex maths expert suggested University of Sussex maths teacher Dr John Haigh was in demand last week as the national media sought advice from an expert in probability in choosing national lottery numbers.

It's not easy to make confusing mathematics topics understandable, let alone interesting, to non-mathematicians, but University of Pennsylvania professor Robert Ghrist has figured out the formula. Ghrist, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science , studies a branch of math called algebraic topology.

Stanford Professor Jo Boaler says that research findings show how all students can learn to enjoy math and achieve at high levels without suffering from fear or failure.

A new research centre which aims to develop new mathematics for multiscale soft tissue modelling targeted at heart disease and cancer has received £2m in funding. The Engineering and Physical Research Sciences Council (EPSRC) announced today it would be funding the University of Glasgow-led Multiscale Soft Tissue Mechanics (SofTMech) research centre.

With education, employment and income levels all rising for women in sub-Saharan Africa, many observers have speculated that divorce rates would follow suit - as they have in much of the developed world. But a new study by McGill University researchers finds that divorce rates across 20 African countries over the past 20 years have remained stable or declined.

ILR School Professor John M. Abowd will join the U.S. Census Bureau as associate director for research and methodology and as chief scientist, Census Bureau Director John H. Thompson announced Dec.

Researchers at MIT, New York University, and the University of Toronto have developed a computer system whose ability to produce a variation of a character in an unfamiliar writing system, on the first try, is indistinguishable from that of humans.

Three Umeå-based researchers were assigned just over SEK 7 million from Vinnova in a joint investment together with AB Volvo and Volvo Cars to strengthen the Swedish automotive industry.

In the third quarter of 2015, home sale prices increased but sales themselves were fewer in Washington state.

Zhuo Chen, a Ph.D. student in computer science, uses a cognitive assistant that monitors his efforts at freehand sketching with a Google Glass and provides step-by-step advice.

Mathematicians and computer scientists at Heidelberg University will be able to teach and conduct research together under one roof in the future, instead of being spread across various locations.

Mathematicians and computer scientists at Heidelberg University will be able to teach and conduct research together under one roof in the future, instead of being spread across various locations.

Employment, both full time and part time, has expanded and the participation rate reversed its recent decline.

Cardiff experts to develop a 'smart' schedule to help reduce waiting lists and lower the number of cancellations Researchers from the University have secured a major funding grant to develop mathematical models to assist in the scheduling of surgical procedures in Wales.

A UCL mathematics student has found that the falling 'curtain' of chocolate in a chocolate fountain surprisingly pulls inwards rather than going straight downwards because of surface tension. "Chocolate fountains are just cool, aren't they!" said Adam Townsend (UCL Mathematics), lead author of the paper based on his MSci project.

How much heat can two bodies exchange without touching? For over a century, scientists have been able to answer this question for virtually any pair of objects in the macroscopic world, from the rate at which a campfire can warm you up, to how much heat the Earth absorbs from the sun.

Umeå University together with three international partners have been funded with nearly 4 million euros (3,907,375) for a front-line research project focusing on novel methods and software for the future supercomputer systems.

To work with computational models is to work in a world of unknowns: Models that simulate complex physical processes - from Earth's changing climate to the performance of hypersonic combustion engine

A new center for advancing computational science and networking at research institutions and universities across the country opened today at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Joint research project of the Department of Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University and the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim The official opening ceremony of the new Leibniz S

Greg Morrisett returned to Cornell July 1 as dean of Computing and Information Science (CIS).

Stanford's data journalism program blends the power of big data with journalistic training in the craft of storytelling.

The class of materials known as soft matter - which includes everything from mayonnaise to molten plastic - is the subject of the inaugural lecture by Michael Cates, Cambridge's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

What if we could ease the design of musical instruments while also making their shapes wildly different, and use these underlying techniques to reduce unwanted sounds and vibrations in everyday objects?

Are you a safe driver? According to MIT alumnus Brad Cordova SM '13, co-founder of driving-data-analytics startup Censio, you'll probably answer "yes," but the real answer may be "no.

Europe's problems are not lessening. The refugee crisis will strain government budgets while the Greek debt crisis is only enjoying a brief hiatus.

In the field of research into algebraic geometry, French mathematician Claire Voisin is something of a legend: in recognition of her scientific breakthroughs, the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich will be awarding her the Heinz Hopf Prize on 2 November 2015.

"Indistinguishability obfuscation" is a powerful concept that would yield provably secure versions of every cryptographic system we've ever developed and all those we've been unable to develop. But nobody knows how to put it into practice. Last week, at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, MIT researchers showed that the problem of indistinguishability obfuscation is, in fact, a variation on a different cryptographic problem, called efficient functional encryption.

Oxford University has today opened a new Data Science Lab in collaboration with Emirates. It will see experts from around the University use cutting-edge analysis to help the airline make its services more efficient and customer-focussed.