Topic: interdisciplinary research
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Origami Unlocks a Major Physics Mystery
A mathematician linked origami crease patterns to the amplituhedron, a geometric shape that encodes particle collision probabilities, confirming a key physics conjecture about its subdivision. The amplituhedron simplifies calculating scattering amplitudes in particle physics by replacing complex ...
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Must-Read Research Stories You Might Have Missed
Modern forensic techniques have definitively identified a 13th-century Hungarian duke's remains and reconstructed his brutal, premeditated assassination by multiple attackers. Woodpeckers' grunting sounds during pecking are intentional communication signals that also mechanically stabilize their ...
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Unveiling the Forces Behind Influential Cybersecurity Research
The study analyzed two decades of research from the SOUPS and FC cybersecurity conferences, revealing that smaller, diverse, and focused teams often produce higher-impact work than larger consortia, challenging common institutional assumptions. A stark contrast in gender representation was found,...
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Kids' Drip Paintings Rival Pollock's, Study Finds
A study found that children's drip paintings visually resemble Jackson Pollock's abstract works more than adults' attempts, linked by a shared lack of refined motor control and analyzed through fractal geometry. Physicist Richard Taylor's initial 2001 claim of fractal patterns in Pollock's art fa...
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AI Privacy Research Is Focused on the Wrong Threats
AI privacy research has disproportionately focused on data memorization and chat history protection, overlooking more critical vulnerabilities in how large language models gather, process, and infer information during daily operations. A review of over 1,300 studies revealed that 92% addressed on...
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Google Scholar Labs: AI-Powered Research Discovery
Google has launched Scholar Labs, an AI-driven research tool that provides detailed answers to complex academic inquiries by interpreting context and relationships within research papers, moving away from traditional metrics like citation counts and journal impact factors. The tool deliberately o...
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