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Mathematical Model Predicts Factors Driving Tumor Invasion

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Jul 02, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Tumors are complex collections of cells whose behavior has proven difficult to understand, let alone predict. As a result, oncologists are often surprised by how a particular patient responds to a given course of therapy.

Researcher Discovers Method to Fully Process Encrypted Data Without Knowing its Content

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Jun 25, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (15) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- An IBM Researcher has solved a thorny mathematical problem that has confounded scientists since the invention of public-key encryption several decades ago. The breakthrough, called "privacy homomorphism," ...

Electric fish could spark healthcare innovation

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Jun 19, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians in Manchester are hoping electric fish can give them clues to solving a fiendishly complex mathematical problem - which could in turn lead to better treatment for patients with ...

The first goal is the deepest: Can mathematics predict the match outcome?

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Jun 02, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 1

Jack Brimberg and Bill Hurley of The Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, point out that sports commentators will often argue the importance of scoring the first goal and often suggest that a team improves ...

New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers

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May 08, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (82) | 42

(PhysOrg.com) -- Prime numbers have intrigued curious thinkers for centuries. On one hand, prime numbers seem to be randomly distributed among the natural numbers with no other law than that of chance. But ...

New human movement model can aid in studying epidemic outbreaks, public planning

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Apr 27, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

Researchers have developed a new statistical model that simulates human mobility patterns, mimicking the way people move over the course of a day, a month or longer. The model, developed by scientists at North Carolina State ...

New Book Uses Physical Reasoning to Solve Mathematical Problems

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Apr 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Mark Levi, professor of mathematics at Penn State, has authored a book titled "The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems," soon to be published by Princeton University Press. The book, which is ...

Simple new way to analyze sleep disorders

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Apr 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

Sleep is such an essential part of human existence that we spend about a third of our lives doing it -- some more successfully than others. Sleep disorders afflict some 50-70 million people in the United States and are a ...

Mathematics and climate change: Gaining insights into the nature of sea ice

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Apr 13, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (7) | 0

In 1994, University of Utah mathematician Ken Golden went to the Eastern Weddell Sea for the Antarctic Zone Flux Experiment. The sea's surface is normally covered with sea ice, the complex composite material that results ...

Wall Street rocket scientists crash to Earth

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Apr 07, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (13) | 12

There's a reason Wall Street resembles a rocket experiment gone wrong: rocket scientists helped make it happen.

How space eruptions happen

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Apr 07, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (10) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians at the University of St Andrews have made a discovery which could lead to a better understanding of why huge eruptions occur in space.

Mathematician foresees tight races in Major League Baseball's Eastern divisions

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Apr 02, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

The New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels should make the playoffs in the American League (AL) in 2009 with most other teams lagging well behind. The National League (NL) should see another ...

Mathematicians provide new insight into tsunamis

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Apr 01, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 0

A new mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be has been worked out by scientists at Newcastle University.

Relocation, relocation, relocation: Math could address climate change population concerns

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Apr 01, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (8) | 1

As sea levels rise in the wake of climate change and semi-arid regions turn to desert, people living in those parts of the world are likely to be displaced. A mathematical approach to planned relocation reported in the International Jo ...

Statistical road safety: 18th century math, 21st century road safety

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Mar 27, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 0

What possible connection could there be between an eighteenth century British Presbyterian minister and preventing road traffic accidents in Hartford, Connecticut. Everything, according to a report in the International Jo ...

French-Russian mathematician Gromov wins Abel prize

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Mar 26, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 0

French-Russian mathematician Mikhail Gromov on Thursday won one of the world's top mathematics award, Norway's Abel Prize, for "his revolutionary contributions to geometry," the prize committee said.

Random network connectivity can be delayed, but with explosive results, new study finds

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Mar 12, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (12) | 2

In the life of many successful networks, the connections between elements increase over time. As connections are added, there comes a critical moment when the network's overall connectivity rises rapidly with ...

Scientists closer to making invisibility cloak a reality

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Mar 05, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (25) | 8

J.K. Rowling may not have realized just how close Harry Potter's invisibility cloak was to becoming a reality when she introduced it in the first book of her best-selling fictional series in 1998. Scientists, however, have ...