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Critical Transition Theory Shows Flickering in Heart Before Atrial Fibrillation

WASHINGTON, May 26, 2020 — Affecting up to 4% of patients older than 65 years, atrial fibrillation ranks among the most common heart conditions. Described by health […]

Modeling COVID-19 Data Must Be Done With Extreme Care

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2020 — As the infectious virus causing the COVID-19 disease began its devastating spread around the globe, an international team of scientists was alarmed […]

Correlations in COVID-19 Growth Point to Universal Strategies for Slowing Spread

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2020 — Many months since the first COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, countries continue to explore solutions that are effective at managing the spread […]

Simulations Show Extreme Opinions Can Lead to Polarized Groups

WASHINGTON, April 7, 2020 — In recent years, chaos theory and other forms of computational modeling have sought to leverage findings in the social sciences to better […]

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Diagnosis Improved by Simple Accelerometers

WASHINGTON, February 11, 2020 — Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most common type of muscular dystrophy, affecting more than 10,000 males at birth per year in the […]

Researchers Discover Method to Detect Motor-Related Brain Activity

WASHINGTON, February 4, 2020 — Motor-related brain activity, particularly its accurate detection, quantification and classification capabilities, is of great interest to researchers. They are searching for a […]

Mapping the Path of Climate Change

WASHINGTON, January 22, 2020 – Since 1880, the Earth’s temperature has risen by 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit and is predicted to continue rising, according to the NASA Global […]

From Firearms to Fish — Following Patterns to Discover Causality

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 26, 2019 — Mathematicians have successfully applied a new, pictorial approach to answer complex questions that puzzle analysts, such as, do media stories on […]

Birds of a Feather Flock Together, But How Do They Decide Where to Go?

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 19, 2019 — Coordinated behavior is common in a variety of biological systems, such as insect swarms, fish schools and bacterial colonies. But the […]