Yes the approved vaccines are safe. If you balance the risks, then taking the vaccine is much safer than taking your chances with COVID-19.
We all now know about R, but sometimes it can be good to consider another number: the growth rate of an epidemic.
In a previous article we introduced the problems that can arise when combine the reproduction ratios of a disease in different settings, such as hospitals and the community. In this article we dive into the maths that helps you get to the bottom of these problems.
We explore why you need to be extremely careful when combining the reproduction ratios of a disease in different settings, such as hospitals and the community.
An urgent call has gone out to the scientific modelling community to help fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Two Cambridge mathematicians are helping to lead the charge.
A hundred years ago Ramanujan was elected FRS. Here is a look at the maths that gained him the title.
Peter Scholze has received the Fields medal 2018 for transforming arithmetic algebraic geometry.
Physics is all about observation. But how much can we actually see with the naked eye?
The limits to what we can observe are not only a matter of science, but also of politics and economics.