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The mathematics of soccer - Steve Sherman
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How mathematics and statistics can be used to go some way towards answering the question, ‘will my team win?’ -
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Kicking a soccer ball
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Earth explorers - Megan Nowell
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The Earth explorer satellites promise to revolutionise our understanding of the world around us. -
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Restoration in South Africa – a case study
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James Blignaut and colleagues
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The birth of a fish - Daksha Naran
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Sustainability – the key to the future of our soccer stadia
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QUEST spoke to the experts who are making sure that the money spent on building our soccer stadia is being used wisely.
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The robots are coming…
Posted by Bridget in Physics & Maths
But they’re far too small to see – because they’re molecular robots; researchers have announced a new breakthrough in developing molecules that behave like robots that ‘walk’ on a substrate and change each piece by cleaving off a part.
Researchers from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan and
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Jun
They made rubber – 3000 years ago
Mesoamerican people perfected rubber processing more than 3000 years ago, MIT study suggests.
By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office
Spanish explorers encountering an advanced civilization in Mesoamerica* in the 16th century had plenty of things to be astonished about, but one type of object in particular was unlike anything they had ever
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Jun
Detecting tumours faster
To diagnose cancer reliably, doctors usually conduct a biopsy including tissue analysis – which is a time-consuming process.
A microscopic image sensor, fitted in an endoscope, is being developed for in vivo cancer diagnosis, to speed up the detection of tumours. Early detection is the key to the successful
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Speak to the hand!
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Researchers make gesture-based computing interfaces more accessible with single piece of inexpensive hardware and multicoloured glove.
By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office
Academic and industry labs have developed a host of prototype gesture interfaces, ranging from room-sized systems with multiple cameras to detectors built into laptops’ screens. However, MIT researchers have developed
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The Great Pond Experiment: Regional vs. local biodiversity
Seven-year experiment shows that pond communities bear a lasting imprint of random events in their past.
Scientist Jon Chase once worked in a lab that set up small pond ecosystems for experiments on species interactions and food webs.
‘We would try to duplicate pond communities with a given experimental treatment,’ he says.
‘We
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NASA Orbiter penetrates mysteries of Martian ice
Data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have helped scientists solve a pair of mysteries dating back four decades and provided new information about climate change on the Red Planet.
The Shallow Radar, or SHARAD, instrument aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed subsurface geology allowing scientists to reconstruct the formation of a
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