News: Researchers outline game-theory approach to better understand genetics |
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Principles of game theory offer new ways of understanding genetic behavior, a pair of researchers has concluded in a new analysis appearing in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Its work opens the possibility of comprehending biological processes, and specifically biochemistry, through a new scientific lens. The exploration considers signaling game theory, which involves sender and receiver interactions with both seeking payoffs. "The view of genes as players in a signaling game effectively animates genes and bestows simple utilities and strategies—thus, unique personalities—on them," explains Bhubaneswar "Bud" Mishra, a professor at NYU's Courant Institute of Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-outline-game-theory-approach-genetics.html#jCp |
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| Posted: 2018-09-11 | |
News: Mathematician uses dynamical ideas for insight into the geometry of a space |
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Steven Frankel is not hungry. He just wants to talk about noodles. Frankel is picturing a big bowl of noodles—and whether, and when, the noodles might loop back around on themselves—infinitely extruded, as they might be, from some sort of cosmic pasta maker. The noodles are a simplified way for Frankel, assistant professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, to describe a link between the geometry of a space and the dynamics of that space—how the space changes over time. It's all part of his first solo-authored paper in the leading journal of his field, the Annals of Mathematics. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-mathematician-dynamical-ideas-insight-geometry.html#jCp |
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| Posted: 2018-09-11 | |
News: Antimatter seen in two places at once thanks to quantum experiment |
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A particle can be in two places at once – even if it is made of antimatter. Researchers have just performed an antimatter twist on a classic experiment used to show one of the foundational tenets of quantum mechanics: that all particles are also waves. In the most basic version of the double-slit experiment, first performed in 1801, a beam of light illuminates a plate with two parallel slits cut into it. The light that passes through the slits hits a screen, creating stripes of light and darkness … |
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| Posted: 2018-09-11 | |
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