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By Katie Scott, Wired UK A physicist faced with a fine for running a stop sign has proved his innocence by publishing a mathematical paper, and has even won a prize for his efforts. Dmitri Krioukov is a physicist based at the University of California in... 0 Published 39 days ago in
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To achieve their extraordinary coordination, starling flocks in flight behave mathematically like metals becoming magnetized, researchers say. The same group previously described aspects of starling flocking with equations use... 0 Published 72 days ago in
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Many of us don't learn in optimal ways. We know that we forget new material, neglect to review older material, and study in ways that elevate cramming and procrastination to art forms. But there is researc... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Many mathematicians set their sights on concurring the stock market, with dreams of unbridled financial success. But Scott Richard, who holds degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering fro... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Thanks to impressive athleticism, high-speed video and clever computer modeling, two researchers have unraveled the hidden aerodynamics behind the playful task of skipping over a speeding rope. “Fewer than 10 people have published studies on jum... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Take a piece of paper. Crumple it. Before you sink a three-pointer in the corner wastebasket, consider that you’ve just created an object of extraordinary mathematical and structural complexity, filled with mysteries that physicists are just starti... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Sleeping under a sunbeam is one of my favorite things in the world. Sleeping on top of a warm laptop is ALSO one of my favorite things in the world. And really, sleeping in general might be my most favorite thing in the world. So I suppose mathematicall... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Capybara + itty bitty bunny + sleeping + cuddling = moderator meltdown in three, two, one… SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!! Via The Animal Blog 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The notion of infinity is fundamentally beyond the human ability to comprehend, but that hasn't stopped mathematicians from trying. So just what is infinity, and why is there more than one of them? And j... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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By John Timmer, Ars Technica The World Science Festival’s panel on Probability and Risk started out in an unusual manner: MIT’s Josh Tennenbaum strode onto a stage and flipped a coin five times, claiming he was psychically broadcasting eac... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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By determining how a desert plant’s seed pods unfurl when they get wet, biologists discovered new principles for designing materials that respond to their environments. Eventually, the insights may help engineers improve satellites or develop artificial ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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By John Timmer, Ars Technica Biological systems have caught the attention of computer scientists, who have been turning everything from RNA molecules to entire bacterial colonies into logic gates. So far, however, these systems have been relatively sma... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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There's a baby crying next to you, and it's extremely annoying. You hate it. It's a cute baby, but come on, you're trying to sleep on the train. Luckily, math (and tech that uses it) can wipe the baby out... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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With the help of algorithms designed to guide the Hubble telescope’s starscape surveys, conservation-minded coders have designed software that helps biologists identify whale sharks by their spots. The program enlists the help of citizens with cam... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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In a South American jungle, far from traffic circles, city squares and the Pentagon, beats the heart of geometry. Villagers belonging to an Amazonian group called the Mundurucú intuitively grasp abstract geometric principles despite having no formal math... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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… is worth 18,327 squees in the bush. MATH! Source: Barbara 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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For an example of sophisticated behavior in seemingly simple creatures — or, conversely, to put human engineering in a new perspective — witness the lowly slime mold. Set on an agar plate shaped lik... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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So you're totally sure [insert significant other] is the one. You're going to set it in ink, right on your flesh! There's no way you'll ever regret it. But how will it look down the line? Math has the ans... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Normally, a glass window doesn’t care where a ray of light came from. But special kinds of glass or plastic could be a bit pickier. Nonlinear materials could distinguish between two rays of light coming from oppo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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By John Timmer, Ars Technica The phrase “just like riding a bike” is used to refer to something that, once learned, you never forget how to do. As it turns out, bikes make that easy on us. If a typical bicycle is moving forward fast enou... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Forget GPS. With no fancy maps or even brains, immune system cells can solve a simple version of the traveling salesman problem, a computational conundrum that has vexed mathematicians for decades. The new researc... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Happy Pi Day! But while you're getting your 3/14 on, it's worth noting that pi is worthless! A sham. A fraud. Don't believe me? Check out why we'd all be worlds better off if we threw out our pi and embr... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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What do you get when you transpose the first 31 digits of the number pi into musical notes? Math that's never sounded so good. And if ever an unofficial holiday needed an anthem to get some much-deserved... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I was never terribly good at calculus when I was in school, but I’m pretty talented when it comes to Mathsqueematics, and I’m confident that the above equation I just wrote out is logically both valid AND sound. Squee! Spotter: sixo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Just like many things in life, one’s daily dose of squee! can always be measured using the theory that “more is better.” Let’s examine these prosh little P-dogs for example. If we only had one, it would definitely still be squee&... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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In North America, the lottery is a $70 billion-a-year industry, bigger than movies, music, and porn combined. But it's not infallible. That's what Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician, found out wh... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Researchers have found a fractal pattern underlying everyday math. In the process, they’ve discovered a way to calculate partition numbers, a challenge that’s stymied mathematicians for centuries. Partition numbers track the different ways an... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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As databases of information about people’s lifestyles and medical ailments grow, ever-stranger omens of our health seem to emerge. Today’s computer-powered studies allow researchers to look beyond obvious health risks of the past. New analyse... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Okay, so they aren’t really nested… but seriously, just think about how cool it would be if they were! Instead of standing on a stick, the big green lizard would actually be standing on an even bigger lizard, and on top of the little black o... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Spelunkers look at a cave and wonder how to explore its deepest reaches. But physicists look at it and wonder how it got there in the first place. A new mathematical analysis solves a longstanding cave-formation puzzle: how a trickle of water laced wi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A complicated card trick that deals with the colors of the cards and a binary De Bruijn cycle has helped a mathematician reach a new bound on data compression. Magic and math, more friendly than you'd thi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The ancient Greeks did it, and you can too. Find out how some easily observable facts allow you to measure the approximate distance from the Earth to the Moon. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Linus was right after all. Not only does the Great Pumpkin exist, but scientists have figured out how he manages to get so big. In a sort of self-perpetuating cycle, the bigger a gourd gets, the more physical stress it experiences — thus triggering gian... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The French mathematician was the father of fractals, and while pancreatic cancer got the better of him four days ago, his reputation will live on in the areas of maths, physics, finance, biology and count... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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If we were given Casio's Prizm calculators in math class, perhaps I wouldn't have failed so dismally. Or maybe I would've got even worse marks—spending the 60 minutes of every class searching for So... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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I could say something as lame as "in the future, we'll all be wearing these clothes," but I think you know the truth. You know we'll really look like this. Still, the various designs are really something ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This is how I imagine a trip into the brain of Hunter S. Thompson after eating a slice of Benoît Mandelbrot's brain, sautéed with a bit of pepper, olive oil, and mescal shaves. Except there are no stripp... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A writer for Futurama created a brand new math theorem based on group theory to explain a plot twist in the show. That is like, going way beyond the call of duty, dude. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Upcoming iPhone app Mathstronaut is aimed at kiddywinks, but after watching their demo video I feel a strange urge to rush out and buy an iPhone so I can brush up on my multiplications. And coo at the whi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Relive the glory days of the humble calculator with these 128 classic models splayed and assorted like pin-up girls on heat. It'd make a purdy wallpaper, if nothing else. [Vintage Technology via Core77 vi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Using 35 years of Google-donated CPU time, a team of researchers found that every possible configuration of the Rubik's Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less. Personally, I've almost got all the yellows ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Sadly I wasn't familiar with mathematician and science writer Martin Gardner's work. Fortunately, although he passed away this weekend at age 95, he's left a huge body of work to absorb; this show is a fi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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You might think that Futurama's an unlikely place to find a grab bag of graduate-level physics, but in an excellent new interview with the American Physical Society, creator David X. Cohen says viewers of... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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A Cornell University professor analyzed 150 of the highest grossing movies of the last 70 years. The more recent the movie, he found, the closer it adhered to the mathematical formula that describes the human attention span. In the 1990s, researchers at U... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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