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Fuel cells, energy conversion and mathematics
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Concerns about dwindling fossil fuel resources, current levels of petroleum consumption, and growing pressure to shift to more sustainable energy sources are among the many factors prompting the transition from our current ...
High school students' paper published in prestigious college math journal
Jan 15, 2009 |
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A paper written by four students from High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey, entitled Ethanol: Not All It Seems To Be has been published in the January 2009 issue of The Mathematical Association of America's ...
In many fungi, reproductive spores are remarkably aerodynamic
Dec 23, 2008 |
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The reproductive spores of many species of fungi have evolved remarkably drag-minimizing shapes, according to new research by mycologists and applied mathematicians at Harvard University.
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Pianos, pasta and lollies: the maths of the good life
May 14, 2008 |
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CSIRO mathematician Dr Bob Anderssen knows a thing or two about the good life. He does the maths that makes it good.
Researchers develop computational tool to untangle complex data
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of Dartmouth researchers have developed a mathematical tool that can be used to unscramble the underlying structure of time-dependent, interrelated, complex data, like the votes of ...
Report on citation statistics: Numbers with a number of problems
Jun 11, 2008 |
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The International Mathematical Union today released the Citation Statistics report. Citation-based statistics, such as the impact factor, are often used to assess scientific research, but are they the best measures of research ...
What the Romans learnt from Greek mathematics
Mar 01, 2009 |
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Greek mathematics is considered one of the great intellectual achievements of antiquity. It has been decisive to the academic and cultural development of Western civilisation. The three Roman authors Varro, Cicero and Vitruvius ...
Researchers create mathematical model of fruit fly eyes
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Many researchers have tried to create a mathematical model of how cells pack together to form tissue, but most models have many different complicated factors, and no model is universal.
Hawking files for divorce
Oct 20, 2006 |
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Stephen Hawking, best-selling author of "A Brief History of Time," and his wife have filed for divorce in England.
Creativity in mathematics
Dec 08, 2009 |
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"Mathematics links Art and Science in one great enterprise, the human attempt to make sense of the universe." So writes Abel Prizewinner and Fields Medalist Sir Michael F. Atiyah in the January 2010 Notices of the American Ma ...
How space eruptions happen
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(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.
Scientists closer to making invisibility cloak a reality
Mar 05, 2009 |
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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 ...
Adding technology to geometry class improves opportunities to learn
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A new study co-written by a University of Illinois expert in math education suggests that incorporating technology in high school-level geometry classes not only makes the teaching of concepts such as congruency ...
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