At the frontiers of physics
Two UC Santa Barbara physics professors are elected to the National Academy of Sciences Two UC Santa Barbara physics professors ...
Tag: Systems/Chaos/Pattern Formation/Complexity
Ultra-secure form of virtual money proposed
A new type of money that allows users to make decisions based on information arriving at different locations and times, ...
Storage beyond the cloud
A new way to store information in molecules could preserve the contents of the New York Public Library in a ...
New mathematical approach tested for the search of flight MH370
International team of researchers use data from research buoys to simulate the crash site's location based on how debris drifts ...
US cities host more regionally unique species than previously thought
Citizen science data offers novel comparison of flora and fauna between metropolitan areasCredit: © 2018 Amy Patten SAN FRANCISCO (April ...
No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, suggest researchers
Brain connectivity issues found in children who have experienced prenatal alcohol exposure.Credit: Gao Lin and Linda Sommerlade WASHINGTON, D.C., April ...
Filling in the gaps of connected car data helps transportation planners
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech If you have a new or late model car, most likely it's connected: GPS navigation, that ...
Group decisions: When more information isn’t necessarily better
In nature, group decisions are often a matter of life or death. At first glance, the way certain groups of ...
The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-time world
Credit: Santa Fe Institute Press Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete -- roughly speaking, they believe that it ...
New computer model automatically, aesthetically crops photos
Credit: Courtesy: James Wang and Jia Li / Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Computers can now automatically crop photos ...
Who will win the Game of Thrones?
Machine learning algorithm predicts who will be left standing in "Game of Thrones"Credit: GoT-Team 2019 / TUM Shortly before the ...
The cost of computation
For decades, physicists have wrestled with understanding the thermodynamic cost of manipulating information, what we would now call computing. How ...
Are you with me? New model explains origins of empathy
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute and the Santa Fe Institute have developed a new model to explain the evolutionary ...
Online romance is local, but not all locales are the same
Credit: Bruch and Newman/Sociological Science When searching for love on the Internet, most people end up connecting with the girl ...
Biophysicists use machine learning to understand, predict dynamics of worm behavior
Biophysicists have used an automated method to model a living system -- the dynamics of a worm perceiving and escaping ...
Complex societies gave birth to big gods, not the other way around
Big data analyses suggest that moralizing gods are rather the product than the drivers of social complexityCredit: (c) the authors ...
At 3,836 mph, which way does the air flow?
University at Buffalo engineer laying groundwork for quieter, more efficient and safer supersonic flightCredit: James Chen/University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. ...
Shifting away from coal is key to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, PSU study finds
The United States could fulfill its greenhouse gas emission pledge under the Paris Climate Agreement by virtually eliminating coal as ...
BU researchers develop ‘acoustic metamaterial’ that cancels sound
Boston University mechanical engineers create synthetic, sound-silencing structure that blocks 94 percent of soundsCredit: Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston ...
Do all networks obey the scale-free law? Maybe not
As Benjamin Franklin once joked, death and taxes are universal. Scale-free networks may not be, at least according to a ...
