Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now ...

Understanding volcanoes better: Scientists find exact locations of magma movement

How do volcanoes work? What happens beneath their surface? What causes the vibrations—known as tremor—that occur when magma ...
IEEE

Efficient Calculation of Propagation Coefficients in Anisotropic Media Through Transfer Matrix Method Based on Eigenvalue Analysis

Abstract: To explore the anisotropic nature and improve computational efficiency, eigenvalue (EV-) analysis is adopted to implement the transfer matrix method (TMM), abbreviated as EV-TMM, enabling ...

How the Math That Powers Google Foresaw the New Pope

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a ...
Scientific American

The Math That Predicted the New Pope

Where every known method of divination seemed to fail, a group of researchers at Bocconi University in Milan found a hint in ...
IEEE

Form-finding of Tensegrity Structures via Force Density Matrix Decomposition

Abstract: This study proposes a form-finding algorithm based on force density matrix decomposition for tensegrity structures. The only information required is node connection and component type. The ...