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Neuroscientists Make Major Breakthrough in 200-Year-Old Puzzle

August 13, 2019

Many explanations for Weber's Law have been proposed through the years

Is Your Supercomputer Stumped? There May Be a Quantum Solution

August 2, 2019

Berkeley Lab-led team solves a tough math problem with quantum computing

How Much Water Do Snowpacks Hold? A Better Way to Answer the Question

July 17, 2019

In many places around the world, snow is a critical component of the hydrological cycle

Researchers Publish New Study on Citrus Greening Disease

July 17, 2019

As citrus greening becomes an increasing threat to growers worldwide, the future of the industry may depend on identifying lo...

Researchers' Deep Learning Algorithm Solves Rubik's Cube Faster Than Any Human

July 16, 2019

Work is a step toward advanced AI systems that can think, reason, plan, and make decisions

Strange Warping Geometry Helps to Push Scientific Boundaries

July 12, 2019

Researchers have built an electronic array on a microchip that simulates particle interactions in a hyperbolic plane

Can Mathematics Help Us Understand the Complexity of Our Microbiome?

July 4, 2019

How do the communities of microbes living in our gastrointestinal systems affect our health?

A New Normal: Study Explains Universal Pattern in Fossil Record

June 27, 2019

While scientists have long known about an unusual pattern in the fossil record, they have struggled to explain it

Querying Big Data Just Got Universal

June 27, 2019

New framework allows researchers to concentrate on advancing the search engine, or query engine, itself rather than on p...

New Computational Tool Could Change How We Study Pathogens

March 22, 2019

The model could help revolutionize the way researchers investigate the spread and distribution of dangerous disease vect...

Big Data Is Being Reshaped Thanks to 100-Year-Old Ideas about Geometry

February 27, 2019

An emerging approach based on century-old ideas is producing superior tools for understanding certain types of big data...

Quantifying the Holocaust: Measuring Murder Rates During the Nazi Genocide

January 3, 2019

In a digital age, mathematics, data science, and visualization can help make sense of these events for new generations

Codebreaker Turing's Theory Explains How Shark Scales Are Patterned

November 8, 2018

A system proposed by World War II codebreaker Alan Turing more than 60 years ago can explain the patterning of tooth-like sca...

The Secret behind a Choice Cuppa or a Perfect Pint—a Mathematician

April 18, 2018

Professor William Lee shows how the science of mathematics can increase an industry’s profits

NIST Urges Caution in Use of Courtroom Evidence Presentation Method

April 16, 2018

Courtroom use of 'Likelihood Ratio' not consistently supported by scientific reasoning approach, say NIST experts

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