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IFISC researchers uncover universal spatial patterns in coral reefs worldwide
Dec. 18, 2024
Researchers reveal universal spatial patterns in coral reefs, uncovering consistent ecological laws across diverse marine environments.These findings provide new insights into reef conservation and restoration by linking coral reef structures to mathematical principles.A groundbreaking study published in the journal Global …
IFISC researchers discover how collective learning emerges in neural networks
Nov. 13, 2024
A study published in Physical Review Research reveals that, by coupling different neural networks, they can learn from each other without the need to exchange data, and collective learning emerges abruptly, through phase transitions.The work developed by IFISC scientists - …
New mathematical framework reveals architecture of biotic interactions
Oct. 25, 2024
An interdisciplinary team with IFISC participation has developed a model that integrates multiple types of biotic interactions in a single framework. What is innovative about this mathematical framework is that it is not limited to ecological networks, but can be …
Researchers analyze how our relationships affect the adoption of innovations
Oct. 21, 2024
The study, published in PNAS Nexus, reveals that indirect connections in social networks influence the adoption of innovations, with an impact that reaches up to two-thirds that of direct contacts.The experiment demonstrates that the influence of friends of friends can …
How European vineyards dodged a devastating American disease
Oct. 15, 2024
Study reveals how Europe escaped Pierce's disease and warns of increasing risk due to climate change A team of researchers, including researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC), has revealed the reasons why European vineyards escaped the devastating Pierce's disease, caused by the …
Breaking the Barrier: Engineered Dissipation to Overcome Barren Plateaus in Quantum Algorithms
Oct. 7, 2024
A team of researchers from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) has unveiled a groundbreaking approach to tackle one of the most significant challenges in quantum computing: barren plateaus. This phenomenon severely restricts the performance of variational …
Signed networks model enhances understanding of global conflicts and alliances
Sept. 9, 2024
Researchers at IFISC and the University of Milano-Bicocca develop a model using signed networks to understand international relations.The study, published in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, proposes a local balance index to evaluate countries' contributions to global stability.The …
Climate change boosts olive tree-devouring bacteria in the Mediterranean
June 3, 2024
New research focuses on the impact of global warming on infection of European vineyards by Xylella fastidiosa under different climatic scenarios.Xylella fastidiosa, the deadly disease-causing bacterium that has already wiped out millions of plants of emblematic Mediterranean crops, like grapewines, …
New research proposes using mathematical tool to decipher complex social dynamics
May 31, 2024
Researchers at the Institute of Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems develop a model that characterises the dynamics of group interactions The study, published in ‘Nature Communications’, uses temporal hypergraphs to study how conversation groups form in different social contexts Traditional …
Understanding the energy costs of computing
May 15, 2024
Researchers from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) UIB-CSIC (Mallorca, Spain), the University of Colorado, the Santa Fe Institute, and the The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), have made advancements that refine our fundamental …