Mathematics

Research group uses machine learning to help identify shapes and their properties

Unexpected link reveals key insights into the structure of neutral mutations and the evolution of organisms

A new perspective on structure and complexity of scientific theories

Solving the dilemma in the wall pursuit game could lead to better automation and driverless vehicles

A new measure can help scientists decide which estimation method to use when modeling a particular data problem

A new, one-of-a-kind model predicts how wildfires will spread through communities, not just wildlands

Rewards only promote cooperation if the other person also learns about them

More complicated models can produce more uncertain estimates

Study finds that views held by STEM students are informed by wider social opinions

Diffusive movement through permeable material can be modeled exactly for first time

Research team team creates a statistical model that can be used to detect misinformation in social posts

The analysis encompassed different biological disciplines that involved either human or animal subjects

New model accounts for individuals' varying biological susceptibility to infection but also their levels of social activity, which naturally change over time

Recent study provides new insight into how the shape of the COVID-19 virus' "spikes" aid its success at spreading so prolifically

Study involving survey respondents from England and Japan presents a new model of why physics and mathematics are seen as masculine subjects

UNSW marine scientists have used a barnacle to develop two equations that can help estimate when and where a local boat may have sunk

Current models wrongly assume icebergs melt uniformly in warming oceans, which has implications for oceanographers and climate scientists

In a study of over 500,000 eighth graders from 50 countries, such pressures were found to affect girls even more strongly when it comes to interest in math

Researchers use Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling law for touch sensitivity

Research concludes "that a core dynamo is the only plausible source of the magnetization of the Moon's crust"