Math

  1. Computing

    Your head’s battery

    Fluids in the inner ear can actually power an electronic device, such as an implant.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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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  4. Math

    Math for hungry birds

    Seabird traces patterns while searching for food.

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  5. Brain

    Teaching Math, teaching anxiety

    Teachers' math worries could affect students' performance.

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  6. 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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  7. Math

    Calculating crime

    New math tools could help cops find robbers.

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  8. Computing

    Troubles with Hubble

    Just before a planned repair mission, the space telescope went quiet.

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  9. Math

    Math and our number sense

    Not all math skills are learned in the classroom. Some of them come naturally.

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  10. 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.

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  11. Math

    Math Naturals

    Kindergartners can solve relatively complex addition and subtraction problems if allowed to use their intuitive grasp of approximate quantities.

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  12. Math

    How to Slice a Cake Fairly

    Mathematicians work out a fairer way for two people to share cake.

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