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Climate change: how can maths help?

As the world prepares for COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, we look at how maths can help understand the climate crisis.
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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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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

Complex systems go! The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics.