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What is pharmaceutical statistics?
What do statisticians do in the pharmaceutical industry?
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Citizen science: Schumann resonances
Resonant electromagnetic waves, created by lightning flashes, circle the Earth. Wim Hordijk explores the maths and shows how you can keep track with these phenomena.
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A very useful pandemic
Cambridge researchers, the BBC, and thousands of citizen scientists have created a revolutionary infectious disease data set.
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Fighting future pandemics
Take part in an exciting new project and help fight future pandemics!
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Maths in a minute: False positives
Why a positive test result doesn't necessarily mean you have the disease.
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Blood, oil and water
Sara Zahedi has won a prestigious prize at the European Congress of Maths. Your future medical diagnoses, and even the welfare of sea life, may depend on her work.
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Eight great reasons to do maths
In 2012 the UK government launched a list of the Eight Great technologies of the future. Here's what they are and what role maths has to play in them.
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Ebola: Evidence from numbers
Why maths is an important tool in the fight against Ebola.
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Sending flu packaging
How are researchers in disease dynamics using mathematics to understand how the influenza virus replicates? This short, accessible article investigates.
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How do we hallucinate?
Geometric hallucinations are very common: people get them after taking drugs, following sensory deprivation, or even after rubbing their eyes. What can they tell us about how our brain works?
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Understanding the unseen
When NASA first decided to put a man on the Moon they had a problem: once the Apollo spacecraft was in flight, they would not be able to observe its exact location and neither would they be able to predict it using physics. How could they send astronauts to the Moon if they didn't know where they were? An ingenious mathematician came up with an answer.
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Walk, trot, gallop
Horses, like all animals, have a number of different gaits. But how can they perform these complicated leg movements without having to stop and think? And why do they switch to a new gait when they want to go faster? Mathematics can shed some light on these questions.