Medicine
Mathematics makes a clean sweep in the Nobel Prizes.
Researchers have used mathematical modelling to understand the evolution of the influenza virus.
What's the risk of passive smoking? Or climate change? How big is the terrorist threat? And should we trust league tables? These issues concern all of us, but it's not always easy to make sense of the barrage of media information. David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, gives Plus his take on uncertainty.
How advanced mathematical techniques save lives.
A new Bayesian network helps predict the severity of the disease
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