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New Mathematical Approach Tested for the Search of Flight MH370

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 30, 2019 — The 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 remains ones of the biggest mysteries in aviation. More than $150 million has […]

No Safe Amount of Alcohol During Pregnancy, Suggest Researchers

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 26, 2019 — An international group of researchers has taken one of the first major steps in finding the biological changes in the brain […]

Gender Parity: Not a Foregone Conclusion in All Fields

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 1, 2019 — Women constitute approximately 47% of the workforce yet they are still underrepresented at the highest levels of business, government, medical and […]

Plot Points: A Study Demonstrates a New Recurrence-Based Method that Mimics Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 29, 2018 — The recurrence plot is a vital tool for analyzing nonlinear dynamic systems, especially systems involving empirically observed time series data. RPs […]

European Researchers Develop a New Technique to Forecast Geomagnetic Storms

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 29, 2018 — The Earth’s magnetic field extends from pole to pole and is strongly affected by solar wind from the sun. This “wind” […]

Creating a (Synthetic) Song from a Zebra Finch’s Muscle

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2018 — Birds create songs by moving muscles in their vocal organs to vibrate air passing through their tissues. While previous research reported […]

Exploding Waves from Colliding Dissipative Pulses

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2018 — The interaction of traveling waves in dissipative systems, physical systems driven by energy dissipation, can yield unexpected and sometimes chaotic results. […]

The Price of Chaos: A New Model Virtually Pits New Investors Against Experienced Ones

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2018 — Financial investing attracts a range of casual neophytes to Wall Street financiers. Variation in expertise and risk-taking behaviors among investors regularly […]

Reconstructing What Makes Us Tick

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2018 — Cardiac arrhythmia results when the usual symphony of electric pulses that keep the heart’s muscles in sync becomes chaotic. Although symptoms […]