Systems/Chaos/Pattern Formation/Complexity

Cryptocurrencies have been treated as a financial terra incognita - they enjoyed growing interest but also raised concerns due to their virtuality. The use of statistical methods utilizing correlation matrices to analyze the hundred…

New insights into phase transitions using artificial intelligenceCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used machine learning to study spin models, used in physics to…

International group led by industrial and systems engineering faculty members Tamás Terlaky, Luis Zuluaga, and Boris Defourny will work on optimization algorithms in quantum computing Lehigh University will soon be on the front lines of…

Clearinghouse of computer models ready to play a key role in fight against Coronavirus The Network for Computational Modeling in Social and Ecological Sciences (CoMSES Net), which acts as an international clearinghouse for computer…

Brownian motion describes the random movement of particles in fluids, however, this revolutionary model only works when a fluid is static, or at equilibrium. In real-life environments, fluids often contain particles that move by…

Credit: Robert Rivera, University at Buffalo; Luis Machado, Federal University of Pará in Brazil BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Need to reduce high-pitched noises? Science may have an answer. In a new study, theoretical physicists report that…

Researchers from Osaka University and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology show that cancer cells cultured on Matrigel migrate to form a network structure as they do in vivo, and describe the forces…

Using microscopy and mathematics, researchers have discovered the invisible pattern that growing neurons follow to form a brain. The technique could one day allow bioengineers to coax stem cells to grow into replacement body parts.Credit:…

Light flows around corners unhinderedCredit: AMOLF Researchers of research institute AMOLF and TU Delft have seen light propagate in a special material without it suffering from reflections. The material, a photonic crystal, consists of…

Credit: André de Roos When a grassland becomes a desert, or a clearwater lake shifts to turbid, the consequences can be devastating for the species that inhabit them. These abrupt environmental changes, known as regime shifts, are the…

Credit: J. Soriano/UB A multidisciplinary study led by UB researchers has developed a new experimental tool that enables the application of focalized damage on an in vitro neuronal network of only a few millimetres and record the evolution…

Evaluating the spatio-temporal distribution of diffusion coefficients for high-concentration Brownian particles without fluorescent labeling nor tracking them from microscopy movie data analysis based on the statistical physicsCredit:…

Credit: Image by Dieter Ebert, reproduced from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license Why do predators sometimes lay dormant eggs -- eggs which are hardy, but take a long time to…

Credit: Petr Kratochvil/Public Domain Cities change as they grow -- not only by adding area or population but also in a variety of other ways, from the length and width of their roads to economic growth to the distribution of…

New algorithm solves complex problems more easily and more accurately on a personal computer while requiring less processing power than a supercomputerCredit: ill./©: Illia Horenko The exponential growth in computer processing power…

Hypotheses for the origin of human languageCredit: Cedric Boeckx (University of Barcelona- ICREA-UBICS) One of the most controversial hypotheses for the origin of human language faculty is the evolutionary conjecture that language…

As the most common form of the disease, early diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy is key to survivalCredit: Image courtesy of the authors WASHINGTON, February 11, 2020 -- Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most common type of…

If we understood the humans behind hacking incidents -- and their intent -- could we stop them? EAST LANSING, Mich. - If we understood the humans behind hacking incidents - and their intent - could we stop them? Research from Michigan…

Capsule neural network predicts extreme weather with WWII-era analog forecastsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (Feb. 4, 2020) -- Rice University engineers have created a deep learning computer system that taught…

A new Scientific Reports paper puts an evolutionary twist on a classic question. Instead of asking why we get cancer, Leonardo Oña of Osnabrück University and Michael Lachmann of the Santa Fe Institute use signaling theory to explore how…