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Mathematicians reveal factors driving gun sales in America
As gun sales in the United States continue to soar, researchers at Georgia State University have uncovered insights into what drives Americans to buy firearms. A new study published in PNAS Nexus journal reveals the complex ...
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Jul 10, 2025
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Mathematical model clarifies scaling regimes in Lagrangian turbulence evolution
A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They're instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, uneven fluid flows of fluctuating velocity and pressure. Though ubiquitous in nature, these flows remain ...
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Jul 10, 2025
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I'm a statistics professor who became embroiled in the world of online chess drama
As a mild-mannered statistics professor, it's not often that I get contacted directly by the CEO of a multi-million-dollar company, much less regarding allegations of cheating and malfeasance among world champions.
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Jul 9, 2025
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Hybrid model reveals people act less rationally in complex games, more predictably in simple ones
Throughout their everyday lives, humans are typically required to make a wide range of decisions, which can impact their well-being, health, social connections, and finances. Understanding the human decision-making processes ...
Dentist may have solved 500-year-old mystery in da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man
A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical drawings in the world—Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. This discovery suggests the iconic image reflects ...
Could electric brain stimulation lead to better math skills?
A painless, noninvasive brain stimulation technique can significantly improve how young adults learn math, my colleagues and I found in a recent study. In a paper in PLOS Biology, we describe how this might be most helpful ...
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Jul 2, 2025
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A geometric link: Convexity may bridge human and machine intelligence
In recent years, with the public availability of AI tools, more people have become aware of how closely the inner workings of artificial intelligence can resemble those of a human brain.
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Jul 2, 2025
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Brain stimulation can boost math learning in people with weaker neural connections
The strength of certain neural connections can predict how well someone can learn math, and mildly electrically stimulating these networks can boost learning, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ...
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Jul 1, 2025
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New geometry discovery could stop lunar landers from falling over
Meet Bille, the name given to the world's first monostable tetrahedron—a four-faced object that will always land on the same side, no matter its starting position. This feat of geometry and engineering solves a nearly 60-year-old ...
Mathematical approach makes uncertainty in AI quantifiable
How reliable is artificial intelligence, really? An interdisciplinary research team at TU Wien has developed a method that allows for the exact calculation of how reliably a neural network operates within a defined input ...
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Jun 30, 2025
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Disconnected from math, students call for real-world relevance, survey reveals
According to the first-ever survey fielded by RAND's new American Youth Panel (AYP), 49% of students in middle and high school grades reported losing interest in math about half or more of the time, and 75% of youths reported ...
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Jun 17, 2025
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Smarter hypothesis testing with statistics: How e-values can improve scientific research
During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more flexible—especially when you ...
Mathematics
Jun 16, 2025
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Solving big problems, one burrito truck at a time
When trying to teach a complex subject, sometimes the best strategy is to wrap it in something familiar. Like a burrito.
Mathematics
Jun 16, 2025
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Digital twins reveal how math disabilities affect the brain
Using AI to analyze brain scans of students solving math problems, researchers offer the first-ever glimpse into the neural roots of math learning disabilities.
Mathematics
Jun 10, 2025
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How to break the cycle of math anxiety
It's an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't.
Mathematics
Jun 6, 2025
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AI reveals hidden language patterns and likely authorship in the Bible
AI is transforming every industry, from medicine to film to finance. So, why not use it to study one of the world's most revered ancient texts, the Bible?
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Jun 5, 2025
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Mathematical model helps European regions set suitable targets to close gender gaps in education
The gender gap in education doesn't always disadvantage women. In countries like Estonia, Iceland, or Sweden, women outperform men in key indicators such as tertiary education and lifelong learning. But that, too, is a gender ...
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Jun 5, 2025
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Data-driven method reveals how (un)predictable complex systems can be
A research team has developed a novel method for estimating the predictability of complex dynamical systems. Their work, "Time-lagged recurrence: A data-driven method to estimate the predictability of dynamical systems," ...
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Jun 4, 2025
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Study investigates why mathematical identity is important for students' motivation and competence
Students' perceptions of their mathematical identity can provide insight into why some lose motivation or underperform in math. "The background of the research project MATHMot is that we know less about how motivation for ...
Mathematics
Jun 3, 2025
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Prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians for centuries—technology is revolutionizing the search
A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique—the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have represented prime numbers. Similarly, ...
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Jun 2, 2025
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