A simple model developed by a RIKEN researcher and a collaborator predicts the emergence of self-organized institutions that manage limited resources such as fisheries or irrigation water. This model provides a window into ...
Mathematics
Aug 22, 2025
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We're often told it is "unscientific" or "meaningless" to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King's College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy Clough, of Queen Mary ...
Astronomy
Aug 21, 2025
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They feel like lightning—sudden, brilliant and seemingly impossible to predict. But according to new research, those mind-flashing "aha" moments of insight may leave detectable traces before they strike.
Mathematics
Aug 18, 2025
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A team of international researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Johns Hopkins University and Duke University has discovered that a century-old theory describing turbulence in fluids also applies ...
Soft Matter
Aug 18, 2025
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How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the mathematicians Claudia Fevola from ...
Mathematics
Aug 13, 2025
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Skyrmions are localized, particle-like excitations in materials that retain their structure due to topological constraints (i.e., restrictions arising from properties that remain unchanged under smooth deformations). These ...
Personalized pricing, where merchants adjust prices according to the pile of data about a consumer's willingness to pay, has been criticized for its potential to unfairly drive-up prices for certain customers.
Economics & Business
Aug 13, 2025
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Two recent studies by Professor Stefano Profumo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, propose theories that attempt to answer one of the most fundamental open questions in modern physics: What is the particle nature ...
General Physics
Aug 4, 2025
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A new study published in July 2025 tackles one of science's most profound mysteries—how did life first emerge from nonliving matter on early Earth? Using cutting edge mathematical approaches, researcher Robert G. Endres ...
Astrobiology
Jul 31, 2025
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The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery—and physicists are deeply divided about what is actually going on, a survey in the journal ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 30, 2025
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