It’s a long-running joke in the physicsworld.com newsroom that physicists see power laws everywhere. Indeed, a quick scan of the arXiv preprint server reveals physics papers that apply power-law ...

An essential part of science involves finding correlations between two sets of measurements and seeking explanations for those correlations. However, relationships can be suggested by data even when ...

Statistics uses small samples to predict how phenomena behave in the real world. Many management tools with the aim of maximizing efficiency (ex: Six Sigma) attempt to decrease variances using a ...

The possibility of mathematical power laws governing the scaling of fundamental biological properties, such as metabolic rate, within a species group has been strongly suspected for almost a century.

In 1972, the (future) Nobel Prize–winning physicist Philip Anderson published an article in the journal Science titled “More Is Different.” Dr. Anderson was exploring what happens when a number of ...

Researchers have discovered a surprising mathematical relationship in the brain’s representations of sensory information, with possible applications to AI research. The human brain is often described ...

A seemingly arcane mathematics, called power laws, will help general counsel and other managers in legal departments understand spending, staffing and other numbers. Power laws explain patterns in ...

One of the great things about mathematics is its ability to bring together apparently completely unrelated phenomena, and explain them all with the same simple concept. It turns out that a very basic ...

During the 1930s, Kleiber 1 put forward a "law"--more correctly, an empirical generalization--stating that standard metabolic rate is proportional to the three-quarters power of body mass. The recent ...