News by Subject Mathematics

Biological builders like beavers, elephants, and shipworms re-engineer their environments. How this affects their ecological network is the subject of new research, which finds that increasing the number of "ecosystem engineers" stabilizes the entire network against extinctions.

A new study by the University of Plymouth explains for the first time how quantum supercomputers could be helpful in the world of making and performing music

Researchers from Duke University propose a new approach to finding an optimal solution for controlling large numbers of robots collaboratively completing a set of complex linear temporal logic commands called STyLuS*, for large-Scale optimal Temporal Logic Synthesis, that can solve problems massively larger than what current algorithms can handle, with hundreds of robots, tens of thousands of rooms and highly complex tasks, in a small fraction of the time.

Precision agriculture technologies can improve efficiency on smaller farms

A new set of computational methods developed at Baylor College of Medicine allows researchers to identify cell-type specific methylation patterns -- molecular barcodes -- in complex cell mixtures. The new tools, available for free download, can be applied to existing whole-genome methylation datasets from any species.