How can we use mathematics to model the spread of a disease?

The doubling time of a disease is the time it takes for the number of cases of the disease to double. How do you calculate it?

What is the growth rate and what does it tell us about an epidemic?

News stories have claimed they may have — but is this true?

Can mathematics help reshape our hospital networks?

We discuss new and fascinating observations of gravitational waves with three of our favourite cosmologists.

In this special podcast we look back on this remarkable mathematical moment with Andrew Wiles, Jack Thorne and Tom Körner, and how it opened new doors onto the future of mathematics.

Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem solved a centuries-old problem by opening a door onto the future of mathematics.

Find out how the BloodCounts! project is using AI to make the best of the millions of full blood counts performed every year.

The BloodCounts! project is gearing up towards one of the largest-scale applications yet of machine learning in medicine and healthcare.

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.