Systems/Chaos/Pattern Formation/Complexity

INFORMS Journal Operations Research New Study Key Takeaways: A new algorithm achieves school diversity goals while allowing parents to still have a say in where their child attends. The only caveat with the model is there is no…

New research says 'yes' on both sales and returns Key Takeaways: Mobile apps increase sales, purchase frequency and the range of items sold not only on a retailer's website but also in its stores. App users exhibit greater product…

The European Commission approves funding for the preparation of the European Long-Term Ecosystem Research InfrastructureCredit: ©Juho Aalto With the approval of two projects totalling 14 million euros for eLTER, the EU is opening another…

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) researchers visualized how allergic pollen from two Japanese tree species can fall in-phase synchronization annually at regional and national scales, with potential for improving pollen…

Quantum physicists blur the lines of cause and effect, illustrating how a sequence of events can flip and co-exist at the same timeCredit: Magdalena Zych, Igor Pikovski Quantum mechanics boasts all sorts of strange features, one…

HADES experiment simulates colliding and merging neutron starsCredit: Thomas Ernsting / GSI When two neutron stars collide, the matter at their core enters extreme states. An international research team has now studied the…

200 young talents Provide 200 mathematicians and computer scientists the opportunity to network with peers from utterly different backgrounds and enthusiasm is a natural by product. Find out what drives the young scientists, what…

A new insight into the human vision system In the blink of an eye, the human visual system can process an object, determining whether it's a cup or a sock within milliseconds, and with seemingly little effort. It's well-established that an…

Credit: ASU School of Molecular Sciences In high school chemistry, we all learned about chemical reactions. But what brings two reacting molecules together? As explained to us by Einstein, it is the random motion of inert molecules driven…

The result of the 2016 US presidential election was, for many, a surprise lesson in social perception bias -- peoples' tendency to assume that others think as we do, and to underestimate the size and influence of a minority party. Long…