Search and Rescue: How Mathematics Can Save Lives at Sea
An international research collaboration led by ETH Zurich and MIT has developed a mathematical method that can speed up search and rescue operations at sea….
An international research collaboration led by ETH Zurich and MIT has developed a mathematical method that can speed up search and rescue operations at sea….
Can a Quantum Strategy Help Bring Down the House? In some versions of the game blackjack, one way to win against the house is for…
Study led by a University of Oregon physicist reconfigures a distance-calculation technique built around empirical observations. Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to…
A study published today (July 27, 2020) in The Lancet Digital Health by UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers demonstrates the highest accuracy to date in…
Researchers combine experiments and theory to determine how curved edges affect the wrinkling of ultra-thin materials. When we think of wrinkles, we usually envision the…
Study detects the critical point between 2 liquid forms of water. Water, so ordinary and so essential to life, acts in ways that are quite…
A new approach to designing motion plans for multiple robots grows “trees” in the search space to solve complex problems in a fraction of the…
PNNL quantum algorithm theorist and developer Nathan Wiebe is applying ideas from data science and gaming hacks to quantum computing. Everyone working on quantum computers…
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a mathematical formula that, computer simulations suggest, could help 5G and other wireless…
Algorithm Quickly Simulates a Roll of Loaded Dice The fast and efficient generation of random numbers has long been an important challenge. For centuries, games…
Method may help quickly identify regions where objects — and missing people — may have converged. The ocean is a messy and turbulent space, where…
Error suppression opens pathway to universal quantum computing. A scientist at the University of Sydney has achieved what one quantum industry insider has described as…
Skoltech researchers have offered a solution to the problem of searching for materials with required properties among all possible combinations of chemical elements. These combinations…
“Operations in practice are very messy, but I think that’s what makes them exciting,” says graduate student Jean Pauphilet. When he began his engineering program…
An international team of researchers has developed a new mathematical tool that could help scientists to deliver more accurate predictions of how diseases, including COVID-19,…
Quantitative biologists David McCandlish and Juannan Zhou at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have developed an algorithm with predictive power, giving scientists the ability to see…
Brownian motion describes the random movement of particles in fluids, however, this revolutionary model only works when a fluid is static, or at equilibrium. In…
Google is racing to develop quantum-enhanced processors that utilize quantum mechanical effects to one day dramatically increase the speed at which data can be processed….