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Major League Baseball Teams With Greater Circadian Advantage Are More Likely To Succeed
June 10, 2008 The magnitude of circadian advantage influences the outcome of Major League Baseball games in that teams with greater circadian advantage are more likely to win. Crossing multiple time zones further ... > full story -
Where Mathematics And Astrophysics Meet
June 5, 2008 The mathematicians were trying to extend an illustrious result in their field, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. The astrophysicists were working on a fundamental problem in their field, the ... > full story -
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Road Traffic Deaths In China Have Soared Almost 100 Percent In 20 Years
June 4, 2008 The number of road traffic deaths in China has soared almost 100 percent in two decades, reveals a study published in the journal Injury ... > full story -
Slide Rule Sense: Amazonian Indigenous Culture Demonstrates Universal Mapping Of Number Onto Space
May 29, 2008 The ability to map numbers onto a line is universal. But for an Amazonian tribe, this mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The finding illuminates both the nature and the limits of the human ... > full story -
New Design Enables More Cost-Effective Quantum Key Distribution
May 29, 2008 Researchers have demonstrated a simpler and potentially lower-cost method for distributing cryptographic keys using quantum cryptography, the most secure method of transmitting data. The new method ... > full story -
Patients Suffering From 'Hemineglect' Ignore Things On Their Left, But They See Them Nonetheless
May 14, 2008 Patients suffering from "hemineglect" ignore things presented to their left side. However, sometimes these ignored stimuli may be processed without awareness. In a new study, researchers report that ... > full story -
What's The Difference Between A Human And A Fruit Fly?
May 12, 2008 Fruit flies are dramatically different from humans not in their number of genes, but in the number of protein interactions in their bodies, according to scientists who have developed a new way of ... > full story -
Math Plus 'Geeky' Images Equals Deterred Students
May 12, 2008 Images of maths 'geeks' stop people from studying mathematics or using it in later life, according to new research. Many students and undergraduates seem to think of mathematicians as old, white, ... > full story -
Quantum Cryptography: Researchers Break 'Unbreakable' Crypto
May 8, 2008 Quantum cryptography has been regarded as 100-percent protection against attacks on sensitive data traffic. But now a research team in Sweden has found a hole in this advanced technology. The risk of ... > full story -
Closing The Achievement Gap In Math And Science
May 2, 2008 The latest results from the National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnership program show not only improved proficiency among all elementary and middle school students, but also a closing ... > full story
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