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Baseball: 2008 All-Star Game Was Mathematical Marvel
July 17, 2008 — The 2008 All-Star Game was the game of a lifetime, and a math professor can prove it. "What happened Tuesday night was definitely a rare occurrence and one we should not expect to see again in our ... > full story -
Over 100 Species Of Bats Found Within Several Acres Of Rainforest In Ecuador
July 12, 2008 — Bats are a remarkable evolutionary success story representing the second largest group of mammals, outnumbered only by rodents in number of species. Now, researchers have discovered the place that ... > full story -
Pigs Prefer Three Square Meals A Day
June 24, 2008 — Pigs raised in conventional indoor pens have different feeding patterns from those raised under more natural conditions. New research shows that while pigs in the wild spend much time searching for ... > full story -
Math Could Help Cure Leukemia
June 19, 2008 — In a recent study that combined math and medicine, researchers have shown that patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia may be cured of the disease with an optimally timed cancer vaccine, where the ... > full story -
Some Bird Flu Strains Have Acquired Properties That Might Enhance Potential To Infect Humans
June 12, 2008 — A new study suggests that some North American avian influenza A H7 virus strains have properties that might enhance their potential to infect humans as well as their potential to spread from human to ... > full story -
Report On Journal Citation Statistics Raises Several Issues
June 11, 2008 — Citation-based statistics, such as the impact factor, are often used to assess scientific research, but are they the best measures of research quality? Three international mathematics organizations ... > full story -
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
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