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It's so ubiquitous it's normal!

How long do you have to wait for more than one thing to happen?

They are incredibly useful, but what exactly are they?

How long do you have to wait for something to happen?

What's the chance that something happens?

Measuring your chance of success.

Why the generation time of COVID-19 is importantTo work out the famous R number you need to know the time between infections.

How long does it take for one person to infect another?

A beautiful argument to show that all parabolae are similar.

The doubling time for the Omicron variant seems to be scarily fast. But how do you calculate it?

What's a quality adjusted life year, or QALY?

Can you capture people's behaviour in epidemiological models?

Maths in a minute

Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.

Mathematical snapshots: Teo Deveney

Teo tells us about his work in artificial intelligence, his travels around the world, and how inspiration sometimes strikes in the pub.
Catching clouds with artificial intelligence

Clouds make the weather, yet their detail isn't taken into account in weather forecasts. Artificial intelligence might be able to help.
Can artificial intelligence help predict the weather?

Predicting the weather is hard. With more data and computing power becoming available, artificial intelligence can help.
Maths in a minute: Numerical weather prediction

How does your phone know what the weather's going to be like?
Maths in a minute: Mathematical chaos and the butterfly effect

How a little insect can cause chaos.