In stoichiometric compounds (compounds with fixed ratios of elements), the elemental ratios are dictated by chemical stability, which constrains how much the composition, and consequently the number ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 50, No. 6 (2012), pp. 3351-3374 (24 pages) In this paper quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are applied to a class of elliptic partial differential equations ...

Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?

Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS) represents the successful combination of retentate chromatography and mass spectrometry, and this ...

Abstract: Petri nets (PNs) are graphical and mathematical tools used to model a variety of discrete event systems and analyze their properties. Reachability is their fundamental property that is ...

Colleges have begun responding, but most efforts remain fragmented and reactive. Some schools have modified honor codes to include language addressing generative AI. Others have purchased access to ...

A new trick for modeling molecules with quantum accuracy takes a step toward revealing the equation at the center of a ...

Certain types of biochemical processes can impair the immune system’s ability to recognize and kill cancer cells. Purdue University’s W. Andy Tao and his associates have developed a new way to study ...

To simply understand the differences between socialism, communism, and fascism—contrasted against the free market—imagine ...

Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

In the US, more than 90% of corn plants are genetically modified to withstand weed-killing chemicals like glyphosate, to make ...