Math
- Computing
Teen wins $100,000 for flu advance
Forty talented high-school seniors competed in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search this week, sharing $630,000 in prizes. Top prize went to a teen for his new approach to fighting flu.
- Health & Medicine
Cool Jobs: Data detectives
Statisticians are experts in seeing the patterns hidden within the raw numbers called data. They especially excel at finding real trends, while eliminating what is actually due to chance. That’s why they offer a good reality check in any field that involves numbers.
- Computing
Your head’s battery
Fluids in the inner ear can actually power an electronic device, such as an implant.
- Math
Hitting streaks spread success
For baseball players who want to increase their batting success, a new study offers this tip: Get on a team with a slugger.
- Math
Cool Jobs: Math as entertainment
At DreamWorks Animation (and previously at another company called Digital Domain) Nafees Bin Zafar creates software used to make the special effects in motion pictures — and sometimes cartoons — look as realistic as possible.
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- Math
Shuffling shenanigans
A magician-turned-mathematician figures out how many times to shuffle a deck of cards before playing Old Maid
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- Computing
Troubles with Hubble
Just before a planned repair mission, the space telescope went quiet.
- Math
Math and our number sense
Not all math skills are learned in the classroom. Some of them come naturally.
- Math
Play for Science
Computer scientists are developing programs to win popular games. In the process, they are developing solutions for other, more serious, puzzles.
