Systems/Chaos/Pattern Formation/Complexity

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 …

Credit: Justin Yeakel When we think of engineering in nature, we tend to think of beavers -- the tree-felling, dam-building rodents whose machinations can shape the landscape by creating lakes and changing the path of rivers. But…

Association between mobility patterns and COVID-19 transmission in US: a mathematical modeling study Credit: Johns Hopkins University Residents in all 25 of the U.S. counties hardest hit by COVID-19 began to limit their…

Interdisciplinary collaboration uncovers common mechanism regulating gene expression during development A team of quantitative biology researchers from Northwestern University have uncovered new insights into the impact of…

Researchers develop cryptographic scheme that completely hides your personal information from third parties when using single sign-on systems. Credit: Tokyo University of Science Over the last few decades, as the…

BINGHAMTON, NY -- As parts of the U.S. tentatively reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation's long-term health continues to depend on tracking the virus and predicting where it might surge next. Finding the right computer…

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…

AI monitoring of laser welding processes Credit: Empa Laser welding is a process suitable for joining metals and thermoplastics. It has become particularly well established in highly automated production, for example in the…

A key-role of central banks is to strive for financial stability. To assess climate destabilization risks, major central banks and supervisors plan to utilize a new set of climate scenarios developed by an international team of…

An international team of researchers highlighted two variants of Weibel's instabilityCredit: David Tordeux The magnetic structures resulting from a plasma instability predicted by the physicist Erich Weibel about 50 years ago has been…

An analysis of 19,200 private companies, research organizations, public entities and higher education institutions involved in Horizon 2020 projects shows a loss of efficiency in some sectors if U.K. organizations are removed.Credit: Image…

Today's modern cities, from Denver to Dubai, could learn a thing or two from the ancient Pueblo communities that once stretched across the southwestern United States. For starters, the more people live together, the better the living…

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…

A game theoretical study shows that envy coupled with competition divides society into an upper and lower class It's generally recognized that differences in background and education cement class differences. It is less clear when and…

BE-Hive, a new machine learning model predicts which base editor performs best to repair thousands of disease-causing mutationsCredit: Courtesy of the Liu lab Gene editing technology is getting better and growing faster than ever…

Researchers discover COVID-19 virus has an Achilles' heel, making it an excellent target for inhibitors or new drugs.Credit: Ernesto Estrada WASHINGTON, June 9, 2020 -- As the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2…

Computer scientists have developed a way to measure staff comfort and concentration in flexible working spaces using artificial intelligenceCredit: Arup Computer scientists have developed a way to measure staff comfort and…

Newly proposed way to define cardiac state looks to provide a warning sign of the disease, with implications for wearable devicesCredit: Yew Wai Liew WASHINGTON, May 26, 2020 -- Affecting up to 4% of patients older than 65 years,…

Turns out, it's all in the waterCredit: World Scientific The design of coastal structures, the safety of offshore shipping, the prediction of extreme weather, coastal flooding, and beach erosion--all depend on our ability to…