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A breath of fresh air
Could COVID-19 change our expectations for clear air indoors?
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Maths in a minute: The positive predictive value
When you receive a positive test result for a disease, the chance you actually have it depends on how common the disease is.
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Tony Hoare: Beyond Quicksort
Imagine a world without computer errors. Tony Hoare, inventor of the famous Quicksort algorithm, is working on making it possible.
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Happy birthday Quicksort!
Quicksort is a famous algorithm which celebrates its 60th birthday this year. We explore its clever workings.
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Happy birthday Quicksort: Starting with bubbles
Next month sees the 60th birthday of a famous algorithm called Quicksort. Its inventor Tony Hoare told us that it all started with bubbles.
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The shower equation: Dealing with delay
Many processes, including climate change and the spread of COVID-19, involve a delay. Here's a beautiful equation designed to model such processes.
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Maths in a minute: Asymptotes
Curves can be crazy, but asymptotes are nice and straight.
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The physics of language
Can physics shed new light on understanding language? An exciting new approach that brings together theoretical physics, mathematics and computer science might give us a new way to capture what makes a language unique.
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Will the virus escape the vaccines?
Can the virus that causes COVID-19 mutate into a vaccine-resistant strain? And if yes, what would this mean for our vaccination strategy?
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Counting rose petals
The beautiful rose curve has an odd pattern to the number of its petals – this student and teacher team explain why...
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Seeing traffic through new eyes
Using artificial intelligence to improve traffic, protecting the environment and human health.
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Keeping up with COVID-19
Trying to work out the real time incidence of a disease in the middle of pandemic has never been done before, but the team behind the ONS COVID-19 Infection Survey have developed a way to do just that.