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Spatial Training Boosts Math Skills
June 25, 2013 — Training young children in spatial reasoning can improve their math performance, according to a groundbreaking ... > full story -
Computer Models Shed New Light on Sickle Cell Crisis
June 24, 2013 — Sickle cell crisis, a painful blood blockage common in people with sickle cell disease, isn't just about sickle-shaped red blood cells that block capillaries. According to new computer models, a ... > full story -
Biological Arithmetic: Plants Do Sums to Get Through the Night
June 24, 2013 — Using fundamental processes instead of brain cells, plants measure the time until dawn and divide that by their stored starch levels. Researchers say that this ability in plants represents the first ... > full story -
Cities Are a New Kind of Complex System: Part Social Reactor, Part Network
June 20, 2013 — Scientists have derived a series of mathematical formulas that describe how cities' properties vary in relation to their population size, and then posits a novel unified, quantitative framework for ... > full story -
Using Math to Kill Cancer Cells
June 14, 2013 — Scientists have outlined how advanced mathematical modelling can be used in the fight against cancer. The technique predicts how different treatments and genetic modifications might allow ... > full story -
Pendulum Swings Back on 350-Year-Old Mathematical Mystery
June 10, 2013 — A 350-year-old mathematical mystery could lead toward a better understanding of medical conditions like epilepsy or even the behavior of predator-prey systems in the wild, researchers ... > full story -
Math Technique De-Clutters Cancer-Cell Data, Revealing Tumor Evolution, Treatment Leads
June 6, 2013 — Scientists have developed a mathematical method of simplifying and interpreting genome data bearing evidence of mutations, such as those that characterize specific ... > full story -
Spooky Action Put to Order: Different Types of 'Entanglement' Classified
June 6, 2013 — A property known as "entanglement" is a fundamental characteristic of quantum mechanics. Physicists and mathematicians have now shown how different forms of this phenomenon can be efficiently and ... > full story -
Teacher Collaboration, Professional Communities Improve Many Elementary School Students' Math Scores
June 5, 2013 — Many elementary students' math performance improves when their teachers collaborate, work in professional learning communities or do both, yet most students don't spend all of their elementary school ... > full storyMore: -
Giant Planets Offer Help in Faster Research on Material Surfaces
June 5, 2013 — New, fast and accurate algorithm, based on the mathematical formalism used to model processes accompanying interaction of light with gas planet atmospheres, is a major step towards better ... > full story
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