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Winter is coming: Where are we going?
What can we expect from the pandemic this winter and autumn?
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On the road to dark energy (with chameleons)
We may be a little closer to a direct detection of dark energy thanks to a new result that came about, in a sense, by accident.
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Black Heroes of Mathematics 2021
This inspiring conference featured speakers from Africa, the US, the Caribbean and the UK. Here are some highlights.
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Keeping people safe at large events
How can sporting events, concerts, or festivals be kept safe in the face of rising COVID-19 infections?
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Category theory: from genes to gravity
A quick introduction to an abstract concept that's useful in anything from genetics to cosmology.
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Maths in a Minute: The wagon wheel effect
Have you ever noticed the strange phenomenon of wheels appearing to move backwards while the vehicle is moving forwards? Aadit Jain explains why!
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Opening the black box
The organisers of a new INI programme explain why we need to know more about the maths behind machine learning and deep neural networks.
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Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
We celebrate with some of our friends, all women doing pioneering work using machine learning in a wide range of applications.
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Maths in a minute: Semi-supervised machine learning
Machine learning started with supervised learning and us providing all the training materials, but we are finding ways for algorithms to learn with far fewer resources.
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Mathematics without borders
The International Mathematical Union has celebrated its 100th anniversary with a conference entitled Mathematics without borders.
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Maths in a minute: The prime number theorem
A quick look at one of the most important theorems in number theory.
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COVID-19 and universities: What do we know?
What can last year's experiences tell us about the coming academic year?