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Spurious Switching Points in Traded Stock Dynamics
May 15, 2012 — A selection of biased statistical subsets could yield an inaccurate interpretation of market behaviour and financial returns. Physicists have rebuffed the existence of power laws governing the ... > full story -
Chicago Police Cameras More Effective When Clustered
May 14, 2012 — Chicago's network of police cameras is more effective at reducing crime in high-crime areas than in low-crime areas, according to a new ... > full story -
More Than One in Five Pregnant White Women Smoke Cigarettes
May 10, 2012 — A new report shows that 21.8 percent of pregnant white women aged 15 to 44 currently (within the past 30 days) smoked cigarettes. The study also showed that cigarette smoking levels among pregnant ... > full story -
Gifts of the MAGI in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
May 10, 2012 — These findings are not about the classic story of gift-giving, although the MAGI genes (officially named membrane associated guanylate kinase, WW and PDZ domain containing proteins) do influence ... > full story -
Stable Isotopes Provide 'Signature' for Researchers to Study Animals
May 3, 2012 — Researchers have many tools available in studying and observing mammals. One is quite small—the stable isotope. Exploring ecological questions through analysis of stable isotopes is a rapidly ... > full story -
Mitigating Disasters by Hunting Down Dragon Kings: Forecasting Natural or Economic Disasters by Identifying Statistical Anomalies
May 3, 2012 — Professional Dragon King hunters are exploring the ways in which natural or economic disasters can be predicted by identifying statistical ... > full story -
What Online Social Networks May Know About Non-Members
April 30, 2012 — What can social networks on the internet know about persons who are friends of members, but have no user profile of their own? Researchers have just studied this question. Their work shows that ... > full story -
New Particle Discovered at CERN
April 27, 2012 — Physicists have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be detected for the first time at ... > full story -
Genes Shed Light on Spread of Agriculture in Stone Age Europe
April 26, 2012 — One of the most debated developments in human history is the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies. Scientists have now shown that agriculture spread to Northern Europe via ... > full story -
Inequality and Investment Bubbles: A Clearer Link Is Established
April 19, 2012 — An expert on statistical mechanics shows that the income distributions for the richest 3 percent and the poorer 97 percent conform to different physics ... > full story
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