News tagged with graph theory

Innovative technique can spot errors in key technological systems

An innovative computational technique that draws on statistics, imaging and other disciplines has the capability to detect errors in sensitive technological systems ranging from satellites to weather instruments.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mathematics prize goes to University of Chicago's Hannah Alpert

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Association for Women in Mathematics has named Hannah Alpert, a third-year mathematics major at the University of Chicago, a co-winner of the 2010 Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Social networking for terrorists

A new approach to analyzing social networks, reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Services Sciences, could help homeland security find the covert connections between the people behind terrorist attack ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1




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A gender-biased metric guides funding decisions in psychology research

How do psychologists gauge scientific impact? One way is the so-called “journal impact factor,” or JIF, a ranking of a journal derived from the number of citations by other authors to all of the articles it has ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Listening to the stars

It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Recent advance in detonation theory

A detonation wave is a chemical reaction wave propagating at the velocity of a shock wave along the explosive charge. There is great demand for a detonation model that can accurately simulate the detonation process, which ...

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Potential new NASA mission would reveal the hearts of undead stars

Neutron stars have been called the zombies of the cosmos, shining on even though they're technically dead, and occasionally feeding on a neighboring star if it gets too close.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

A new method for the compression of complex signals presented

Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the University of Southern California have developed a compression method that improves the compacting of video signals, and which could be used to study ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Dolphins, aliens, and the search for intelligent life

How do we define intelligence? SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, clearly equates intelligence with technology (or, more precisely, the building of radio or laser beacons). Some, such as the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 41 | with audio podcast

Drawing and doodling can help you learn science: study

(Medical Xpress) -- According to a new study students should be encouraged to use freehand drawings in science class because it will help them learn more quickly.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Physicists closing in on the elusive Higgs boson

Scientists at a meeting in Grenoble, France, recently stoked speculation that physicists at the world's biggest particle accelerator may soon provide a first look at the elusive Higgs boson - the final piece of evidence needed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 26

Redefining how the brain plans movement

In 1991, Carl Lewis was both the fastest man on earth and a profound long jumper, perhaps the greatest track-and-field star of all time in the prime of his career. On June 14th of that year, however, Carl Lewis was human. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeing the S-curve in everything

Esses are everywhere. From economic trends, population growth, the spread of cancer, or the adoption of new technology, certain patterns inevitably seem to emerge. A new technology, for example, begins with ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast


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