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 […]
Taming Chaos: Calculating Probability in Complex Systems
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2018 — Daily weather patterns, brain activity on an EEG (electroencephalogram) and heartbeats on an EKG (electrocardiogram) each generate lines of complex data. […]
American Service Industry Approaching a ‘Tipping Point’
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 27, 2018 — The average rate at which Americans tip for services has been increasing steadily for decades, which creates a growing pay disparity […]
Getting to the Heart of Mapping Arrhythmia-Related Excitations
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 29, 2017 — Atrial fibrillation is the most prevalent form of cardiac arrhythmia, affecting up to 6 million people in the U.S. alone. Common […]
Nonlinear Physics Bridges Thoughts to Sounds in Birdsong
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 19, 2017 — The beautiful sound of birdsongs emerging from the trees is a wonderful example of how much nature can still teach us, […]
Robotics-based Study Provides Insight into Predator-Prey Interactions
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 18, 2017 — Researchers have recently gained advanced understanding of a variety of processes through the information-theoretic concept of transfer entropy. Today, scientists are […]