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10 years ago+12 12 0Sound, light and water waves and how scientists worked out the mathematics
What violins have in common with the sea – the wave principle. By Alok Jha
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10 years ago+8 8 0Are you smarter than a 5-year-old? Preschoolers can do algebra
Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y, and for those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and kindergarteners can do some algebra before even ...
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10 years ago+19 19 0The nature of color: New formula to calculate hue improves accuracy of color analysis
Color is crucial in ecological studies, playing an important role in studies of flower and fruit development, responses to heat/drought stress, and plant–pollinator communication. But, measuring color variation is difficult, and available formulas so ...
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10 years ago+16 16 0 x 1Dangerous mistaken identity: Protein folding leads to some neurodegenerative diseases
Tau proteins, which are responsible for Alzheimer's disease, bind to the folding protein HSP90. The molecular recognition mechanisms that play a role here have been unveiled by an international team of scientists, and may open the door for new a ...
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10 years ago+6 6 0Scientists complete the top quark puzzle
Scientists on the CDF and DZero experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that they have found the final predicted way of creating a top quark, completing a picture of this particle nearl ...
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10 years ago+3 3 0Moebius Transformations Revealed
A short film depicting the beauty of Moebius Transformations in mathematics. The movie shows how moving to a higher dimension can make the transformations easier to understand. The full version is available at http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/moebiu ...
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10 years ago+20 20 0Quality of white matter in the brain is crucial for adding and multiplying (but not subracting and dividing)
A new study has found that healthy 12-year-olds who score well in addition and multiplication have higher-quality white matter tracts. This correlation does not appear to apply to subtraction and division.
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10 years ago+13 13 0A solution that counts: Long-standing mathematical conjecture finally proved
(PhysOrg.com) -- A conjecture presented in 1985 the Andrews and Robbins conjecture has recently been proved for the first time. It is thus clear that the structure which goes by the name of 'totally symmetric plane partitions' can be desc ...
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10 years ago+19 20 1Computer generated math proof is too large for humans to check
(Phys.org) —A pair of mathematicians, Alexei Lisitsa and Boris Konev of the University of Liverpool, U.K., have come up with an interesting problem—if a computer produces a proof of a math problem that is too big to study, can it be judged as true an ...
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10 years ago+3 3 0Spatial training boosts math skills
Training young children in spatial reasoning can improve their math performance, according to a groundbreaking study.
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10 years ago+13 13 0Intuitive number games boost children's math performance
A quick glance at two, unequal groups of paper clips leads most people to immediately intuit which group has more. In a new study, researchers report that practicing this kind of simple, instinctive numerical exercise can improve children's abil ...
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10 years ago+7 7 0Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"
This is the first lecture from a Harvard University class on the philosophy of justice. The entire series is highly recommended! PART ONE: THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER PART TWO: THE CASE FOR CANNIBALISM
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10 years ago+12 12 0The unexpected power of baby math: Adults still think about numbers like kids
A new study has found new evidence that educated adults retain traces of their innate sense of numbers from childhood -- and that it's more powerful than many scientists think. The findings could contribute to the development of methods to more ...
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10 years ago+9 9 0Kids grasp large numbers remarkably young
Children as young as 3 understand multi-digit numbers more than previously believed and may be ready for more direct math instruction when they enter school, according to new research.
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10 years ago+18 18 0Why does the brain remember dreams?
Some people recall a dream every morning, whereas others rarely recall one. In a new study, research shows that the temporo-parietal junction, an information-processing hub in the brain, is more active in high dream recallers. Increased activity in t ...
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10 years ago+11 11 0Dara O'Briain School of Hard Sums First Episode
Great mathematics show!
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10 years ago+9 9 0The problem with p values: how significant are they, really?
For researchers there’s a lot that turns on the p value, the number used to determine whether a result is statistically significant. The current consensus is that if p is less than .05, a study has reached…
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10 years ago+11 11 0To Settle Infinity Question, a New Law of Mathematics | Simons Foundation
To determine the nature of infinity, mathematicians face a choice between two new logical axioms. What they decide could help shape the future of mathematical truth.
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10 years ago+6 6 0Von Neumann-Day problem: Vexing math problem finds an elegant solution
A famous math problem that has vexed mathematicians for decades has finally met an elegant solution. Mathematicians have now described a geometric solution for the von Neumann-Day problem, first described by mathematician John von Neumann in 1929.
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10 years ago+10 10 0 x 1No math gene: Learning mathematics takes practice
New research shows that if you want to be good at math, you have to practice all different kinds of mathematics.