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Netflix’s sci-fi television series 3 Body Problem introduces viewers to advanced concepts in physics in service to a suspenseful story involving investigative police work, international intrigu...

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A duo of mathematicians at the University of California, San Diego, has found the answer to r(4,t), a long-standing Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades. The post Mathem...

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An international team of scientists has developed a specific mathematical model that closely matches how a human brain works when it comes to reading vision. The post Human Brain is Naturally W...

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In a new study at Barcelona Zoo, researchers tested if giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis), despite having a smaller relative brain size, can rely on relative frequencies to predict sampling outcom...

https://www.sci.news/biology/giraffe-statistics-11893.html

Mathematical ability is moderately heritable, and it is a complex trait which can be evaluated in several different categories. The post Researchers Identify Three Genetic Variants Associated w...

https://www.sci.news/genetics/mathematical-genetic-variants-11684.html

The new mathematical formula can describe any bird’s egg existing in nature, says a team of scientists from the United Kingdom and Ukraine. Described as the most perfect thing, the egg has alwa...

https://www.sci.news/biology/egg-shape-universal-mathematical-formula-10019.html

Known as Si.427, the ancient clay tablet was discovered and cataloged along with many other tablets by the 1894 French archaeological expedition at Sippar in central Iraq. “Si.427 dates from th...

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/si-427-babylonian-clay-tablet-09934.html

Minoan Linear A is still an undeciphered script mainly used on the island of Crete from 1700 to 1400 BCE. A new study published in the published in the Journal of Archaeological Science sheds lig...

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/fraction-signs-minoan-linear-a-script-08835.html

Nicolas Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical fields such as ...

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The Golden ratio principle is present in the architecture and evolution of the human skull, suggests a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Nationwide...

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/mathematics/human-skull-dimensions-golden-ratio-07668.html

University of Bristol’s Professor Andrew Booker and MIT Professor Andrew Sutherland have found a solution to x3 + y3 + z3 = 42, the famous 65-year-old math puzzle. The original problem, set in ...

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/mathematics/sum-three-cubes-problem-number-42-07576.html

According to a series of experiments by Yale University and University of Bath researchers, ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments in the same way they can appreciate a pian...

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/mathematics/complex-math-beauty-07570.html

A team of mathematicians from the University of New South Wales in Australia and the L’École Polytechnique in France has solved a decades-old maths riddle that allows multiplication of large n...

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/mathematics/new-algorithm-multiplying-large-numbers-07061.html

Professional and amateur mathematicians from a worldwide research project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) have discovered the largest known prime number. The new number, e...

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/mathematics/largest-prime-number-06751.html

An international team of scientists has developed a numerical 3D model for the melting of single snowflakes. A better understanding of how snow melts can help researchers recognize the signature ...

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/mathematics/3d-numerical-model-melting-snowflake-05865.html

An international team of scientists has developed a mathematical model for the emergence of innovations, in which cognitive processes are described as random walks on the network of links among i...

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/mathematics/mathematical-model-innovations-05683.html

The Bakhshali manuscript, an ancient Indian mathematical manuscript written on more than 70 leaves of birch bark, is notable for having a dot representing ‘zero’ in it. The date of the manusc...

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/bakhshali-manuscript-mathematical-symbol-zero-05231.html

Plimpton 322, the most famous of Old Babylonian tablets (1900-1600 BC), is the world’s oldest trigonometric table, possibly used by Babylonian scholars to calculate how to construct stepped pyr...

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/babylonian-clay-tablet-plimpton-322-05163.html

An international team of mathematicians led by University of Pittsburgh Professor Thomas Hales has delivered a formal proof of the Kepler conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry. The te...

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/mathematics/formal-proof-kepler-conjecture-04960.html

More than three decades ago, mathematicians at the University of Mainz in Germany started developing a theory according to which codes could be presented at a level one step higher than the seque...

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