A mathematical, and personal, look into how we all had to balance the different harms of the virus and the steps we took against it.
In this podcast we talk to Blake Sherwin about a new map of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up 85% of the stuff in the Universe.
Was the mathematical modelling projecting the course of the pandemic too pessimistic, or were the projections justified? Matt Keeling tells our colleagues from SBIDER about the COVID models that fed into public policy.
PhD student Daniel Kreuter tells us about his work on the BloodCounts! project, which uses maths to make optimal use of the billions of blood tests performed every year around the globe.
How do green algae manage a perfect breaststroke even though they haven't got a brain? Enter the maths of synchronisation.
How would you explain the natural numbers to an alien devoid of a number instinct? You could try Peano arithmetic...
Find out how infinity can corrupt the youth, why subtracting infinities can give you the right answer, and the weirdness that might be lurking out there in the cosmos...
Some diseases spread far more quickly in care homes and other settings with vulnerable people. How can maths help? And what help does maths need?
Invading mosquitoes and food poisoning in the production chain — there are a lot of questions epidemiologists address in their research.
Weird and wonderful things can happen when you set a ball in motion on a billiard table — and the theory of mathematical billiards has recently seen a breakthrough.
"What's a statistician's favourite sandwich filling?" Presenter, writer and comendian Timandra Harkness tells us how to make maths funny.
Was vaccinating vulnerable people first a good choice? Hindsight allows us to assess this question.