Theoretical Sciences

China's National Center for Trauma Medicine creates a clinical decision support system based on big data to help predict individual trauma patient outcome Chinese researchers from The Trauma Center of Peking University People's Hospital…

Credit: S Paesani A team of physicists at the University of Bristol has developed the first integrated photon source with the potential to deliver large-scale quantum photonics. The development of quantum technologies…

Artificial intelligence and primary care research: A scoping review Artificial intelligence methods are being utilized in radiology, cardiology and other medical specialty fields to quickly and accurately process large quantities of…

Group calls for transparency, interoperability, privacy, and scrutinyCredit: Association for Computing Machinery Today, the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) of the world's largest society of computing professionals,…

A new research study, investigating how service robots in hotels could help redefine leadership and boost the hospitality industry, has taken on new significance in the light of the seismic impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on tourism and…

Current experiments' detectors and data analyses efforts could be refocused to seek out newly suggested types of dark matter signals that may have been overlookedCredit: Milennium-II Simulation Dark matter has so far defied…

Study shows networks are better than official databases at identifying weaknesses quickly RICHLAND, Wash. -- Software vulnerabilities are more likely to be discussed on social media before they're revealed on a government reporting site, a…

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…

Credit: Kimberly L. Oremus et al., Nature Sustainability. Feb. 24, 2020 Policymakers will need to step up to the challenges caused by significant shifts in fish species distributions caused by climate change. Tropical countries stand to…

With a unifying model based in game theory, Andrew Tilman, Joshua Plotkin, and Erol Akçay of the School of Arts and Sciences inform dynamics in fields as diverse as ecology and economics. In a heavily polluted environment, does it make…

The next era of computing will depend on controlling light the way we now control electricity, and Stanford scientists have developed a trick that could do just that. To develop futuristic technologies like quantum computers, scientists…

Research ranges from better batteries to better ways of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named 32 academic inventors to the February 2020 class of NAI Senior Members. Among these are four UH…

Bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning programs is well established. Researchers from North Carolina State University and Pennsylvania State University are now proposing that software developers incorporate the concept…

Theoretical physicists from Trinity College Dublin have found a deep link between one of the most striking features of quantum mechanics - quantum entanglement - and thermalisation, which is the process in which something comes into…

In 1906, Francis Galton was at a country fair where attendees had the opportunity to guess the weight of a dead ox. Galton took the guesses of 787 fair-goers and found that the average guess was only one pound off of the correct weight --…

Princeton researchers find that division of labor and political polarization may be driven by the same processes in ant societies.Credit: Chris Tokita, Princeton University Could the division of labor in an anthill be…

Credit: Springer Nature In his book, Mark Alpert reimagines Saint Joan of Arc as a teenage math whiz from New York City. Devastated by the recent death of her older sister, Joan takes on the divine mission of unifying the laws of…

The choices we make in large group settings -- such as in online forums and social media -- might seem fairly automatic to us. But our decision-making process is more complicated than we know. So, researchers have been working to…

Dr. Isaac Elishakoff authors the key reference in study of stocky beams and thick plates in its numerous applications in mechanical, aerospace, civil, ocean and marine engineering fieldsCredit: World Scientific Beams and plates are…

Bielefeld University's anniversary conference on Nov. 14-15 Be it relativity theory, systems theory, or game theory: to this day, great theories are the figureheads of science. But are algorithms replacing them with automated data…