Many individuals believe that mathematics is a human invention. In this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may define actual things on the planet. However, it does not "exist" outside the minds of the people who utilize it.However, the Pythagorean school of thought in ancient Greece held a different sight. Its...
In nations like Denmark and Germany, gifts are given on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning. Furthermore, on Christmas Eve 2021, 587 groups of researchers at universities around Australia got a festive present from the Australian Research Council (ARC), in the form of information that their 2022 Discovery Projects were to be financed.More brutally,...
The patterns of the ocellated lizard are predictable by a mathematical model. Credit: UNIGE / Michel MilinkovitchThe shape-shifting clouds of starling birds, the order of neural networks, or the anthill structure: Nature has many complicated systems whose behaviors can be modeled using mathematical tools. The same holds for the labyrinthine patterns created by the...
Exascale computing is the following milestone in the advancement of supercomputers. Capable of processing information much faster than today's most powerful supercomputers, exascale computers will certainly give researchers a new tool for addressing a few of the most significant obstacles facing our world, from climate change to understanding cancer to designing brand-new sort of...
Researchers from Osaka University and Osaka City University synthesize and crystallize a molecule that is usually too unstable to thoroughly study in the laboratory. The molecule is also a model of a revolutionary class of magnets. Since the very first documented production in 2004, researchers have been hard at work utilizing graphene and identical...
A quark gluon plasma after the collision of two heavy nuclei. Credit: TU WienCan machine learning be used to reveal the secrets of the quark-gluon plasma?Yes, it can. However, only with advanced new methods.It can hardly be more complicated. Little particles whir around wildly with extremely high energy, many interactions happen in the...
A Different Kind of Queen's GambitHarvard mathematician greatly settles 150-year-old chess problem involving most potent piece on board.In the game of chess, the queen is considered the most powerful piece on the board because of its ability to move in any direction along the rank, file, or diagonal it is placed on. This makes...
This fluorescence microscopy image shows yeast vacuoles that have undergone phase separation. Credit: Luther Davis/Alexey Merz/University of WashingtonMembranes are essential to our cells. Every cell in your body is encased by one. And each of those cells contains specialized chambers, or organelles, which are similarly confined by membranes.Membranes assist cells in accomplishing tasks like...
Credit: XponentialdesignCosmic physics simulated on the tabletop as graphene enables the Schwinger effect, forming particle-antiparticle pairs.Researchers at The University of Manchester succeeded in observing the supposed Schwinger effect. The Schwinger effect is an evasive process that usually happens only in cosmic events. The group - based at the National Graphene Institute - accomplished to...
The NIAID-sponsored research study analyzed dose in adults fully vaccinated with any EUA or accepted COVID-19 vaccine.According to preliminary clinical trial results reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, an extra dose of vaccine is safe for adults who had formerly received a complete regimen of any of three COVID-19 vaccines provided by...
