The Belgian Ingrid Daubechies and the American David Mumford have just been awarded the Frontiers of Knowledge award given by the BBVA Foundation in the Basic Sciences category. The jury has awarded them this prestigious award for "their work in mathematical theory, which has had a great influence in various fields of application, from data compression to pattern recognition," according to the minutes.
The exhibition 'MC Escher. Infinite universes'. The exhibition commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Dutch artist's last visit to the Alhambra and presents a
Researchers from the University of Valencia (UV) and the University of Oxford have discovered that some insects have a sophisticated counting mechanism, a cognitive ability that until now was believed to be exclusive to vertebrate animals.
The number twelve has been linked for millennia to the measurement of time. Both calendars and clocks are organized based on this figure: the year consists of 12 months and the day of 24 hours. Each hour is divided into 5 × 12 minutes. The duodenum (derived from the Latin word "duodecim", which means "twelve") is part of the small intestine and in an adult it measures approximately 12 inches in length (30.5 cm).
When doing calculations and mathematical operations, bilinguals always use the language in which they learned to do math, according to a study published in the journal Psychological Science. The researchers, from the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain and Language, worked with 20 bilingual people.
A new study by the University of Missouri (USA) with 6,250 schoolchildren has revealed that children who are continuously obese from kindergarten through fifth grade of primary school perform worse on math tests than children and growing children in the absence of obesity.
Sauropod dinosaurs could have produced enough greenhouse gas methane with their flatulence to increase the Earth's temperature millions of years ago, causing their own "global warming", according to a study published in the journal Current Biology.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
