For over a century, we’ve told ourselves a comfortable evolutionary story about our species. Neanderthals were hanging around ...

Zebras and tigers have stripes, cheetahs and leopards have spots, and the ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus) boasts a labyrinthine pattern of black-and-green chains of scales. Now researchers from the ...

Particles as different as soap bubbles and ball bearings can be made to arrange themselves in exactly the same way, according ...

Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some ...

Last week, Google Research held an online workshop on the conceptual understanding of deep learning. The workshop, which featured presentations by award-winning computer scientists and neuroscientists ...

New research has identified the processes that underpin the trajectories of microplastics below the ocean surface. The authors analyzed how biofouling -- the accumulation of algae on the surface of ...

A new mathematical model has been developed to identify the number of days students could attend school to allow them a better learning experience while mitigating infections of COVID-19. In a recent ...

A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They're instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, uneven fluid flows of fluctuating velocity and pressure. Though ubiquitous in ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. are exploring how mathematical modeling might be used in the development and use of blood-based biomarkers for brain tumors. The development of a ...