Calculations/Problem-Solving

Scientists offered their explanation on how to eliminate the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou paradoxCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from the Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University…

Austrian researchers have developed a simple tool to show the trends in coronavirus infections over time around the world; The CSH Corona Traffic Light helps people to make their own well-informed decisionsCredit: © CSH Vienna …

What makes ships mysteriously slow down or even stop as they travel, even though their engines are working properly? This was first observed in 1893 and was described experimentally in 1904 without all the secrets of this "dead water"…

Data science team at Columbia to enhance probabilistic programming A Columbia University research team affiliated with the Data Science Institute (DSI) has received a Facebook Probability and Programming research award to develop static…

Monte Carlo method dispenses with troublesome meshes Credit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an efficient new way to quickly analyze complex geometric models…

The neural computations of human and non-human primates shed new light on the evolution of language Credit: Photo courtesy of Stephen Ferrigno. Humans and monkeys may not speak the same lingo, but our ways of thinking are a lot…

Credit: Joakim Munkhammar A new mathematical model for predicting variations in solar irradiance has been developed at Uppsala University. It may help to promote more efficient use of electricity from solar energy. In…

Discovery of how to measure surface viscosity of liquids could give machines more precise control over droplets Credit: Purdue University images/Brayden Wagoner and Osman Basaran WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Drones and other…

MathDeck project aims to help non-experts easily search and manipulate sophisticated math Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have developed MathDeck, an online search interface that allows anyone to easily create, edit…

Herd immunity to Covid-19 could be achieved with less people being infected than previously estimated according to new research. Mathematicians from the University of Nottingham and University of Stockholm devised a simple model…

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Instead of responding to each flight delay as if it were an isolated event, airlines should consider the likelihood of potential disruptions ahead, researchers report in the…

New INFORMS Journal Information Systems Research Study Key Takeaways: 80% of users in our survey agree they trust a review platform more if it displays fake reviews. 85% of users in our survey believe they should be able to choose…

In a paper published by the Royal Society, a team of Bristol researchers observed the exploratory behaviour of ants to inform the development of a more efficient mathematical sampling technique. Animals like ants have the challenge of…

BfR Communication No. 025/2020 of 02 June 2020 The 'Food Safety Knowledge Markup Language (FSK-ML)' format allows to uniformly document mathematical models and model-based simulation results, and make these available to other researchers…

Conference 'Advanced Problems in Mechanics' (APM-online) will be held onlineCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University From June 21 to June 26, the International Summer School-Conference "Advanced Problems in…

Credit: © 2020 KAUST A framework that uses graph theory, which considers how networks are coded, could help make digital communication networks more efficient. For modeling social networks, no branch of mathematics is more integral…

A new mobile app developed by City College of New York physicist Hernan Makse and his colleagues will track and trace those infected with the novel coronavirus as a means of limiting and containing the spread of the virus, which causes…

Credit: Eric Goldfarb Once you crush, cut or fracture a rock, there are no do-overs. It's a fact that means geoscientists have to be particularly careful about which rock samples they can sacrifice to physics experiments…

Study finds disclosure laws do reduce the rate of prescription by paid physicians Key Takeaways: The practice of pharmaceutical companies paying doctors as consultants has created longstanding concerns over possible conflicts of…

By generalizing a classical statistical model and adapting it for use in analyzing the extremes of rainfall in large datasets, researchers, including KAUST's Raphaël Huser, have devised a more efficient and flexible analytical tool that…