Systems/Chaos/Pattern Formation/Complexity

Combining wind data with the fractal-like behavior that air particles take on in the atmosphere provides a way for determining how pollutants and volcanic ash will travelCredit: Tímea Haszpra WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2019 --…

Work is step toward advanced AI systems that can think, reason, plan and make decisionsCredit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., July 15, 2019 - Since its invention by a Hungarian architect in 1974, the Rubik's Cube has furrowed the brows…

Credit: Kollár et al. Atomic interactions in everyday solids and liquids are so complex that some of these materials' properties continue to elude physicists' understanding. Solving the problems mathematically is beyond the…

Capping medical residency hours does not hamper new doctors' quality of training When new rules capped training hours for medical residents at 80 hours per week in 2003, critics worried that the change would leave physicians-in-training…

Credit: Shun-ichi Azuma In the contract-based demand response, some of the participants may default in providing the scheduled negawatt energy owing to demand-side fluctuations faults. Thus, the detection of defaulting…

Machine learning helps solve a puzzle of how strongly interacting electrons behave at atomic levelCredit: JC Séamus Davis For the last 100 years materials such as gold and silicon have been conduits to the force which has powered…

Sex, drugs and traffic: Search for missing links in networks could help uncover new cancer treatments, build more efficient traffic networks and stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseasesCredit: Keke Shang WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25,…

Credit: Kanazawa University The living cell can be viewed as a factory where protein machines are in charge of various processes, such as transport of material inside the cell or operations with other macromolecules like DNA. Their…

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The saying "God doesn't play dice" is meant to suggest that nothing happens by chance. On the other hand, cancer seems like the ultimate happenstance: Don't we all have a 43-year-old, vegan,…

Sound impulses are captured with a unique installationCredit: @SamaraPolytech The acoustic analytical emission complex, developed by an interdisciplinary project team of scientists from the Samara Polytechnic, will provide timely…