Maryna Viazovska has won one of this year's Fields Medals for a ground-breaking result in the theory of sphere packings.

Barry Mazur has received the 2022 Chern Medal for profound discoveries in topology, arithmetic geometry and number theory.

Mathematicians are developing new machine learning techniques to support medical doctors in their work.

There have been accusations that the modelling projecting the course of the pandemic was too pessimistic. Are they justified?