Podcast
How do you calculate herd immunity?
Listen to Plus editor Rachel Thomas explain herd immunity on the Guardian Weekly Science podcast.
Podcast
Meet your digital twin
Will we one day have digital versions of our entire body to help us make medical and life style decisions and see what medical treatments are right for us? Find out in this podcast.
Article
Maths in a minute: "R nought" and herd immunity
What is herd immunity and what does it have to do with a number called R0?
News story
A call to action on COVID-19
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.
Article
Maths in a minute: Voronoi diagrams
We look at a crafty mathematical device which, among other things, has helped people understand what causes cholera.
Article
How can maths fight a pandemic?
How do mathematical models of COVID-19 work and should we believe them? We talk to an epidemiologist, who has been working flat out to inform the government, to find out more.
News story
Fighting the coronavirus
As the world prepares for the worst, we explore the maths that can help us stop a pandemic.
News story
Helping men with early prostate cancer
A new online tool developed with the help of statisticians enables patients to make informed treatment choices.
Article
Inverse problems save the day
Inverse problems are mathematical detective problems. They can help solve crimes, are used in medical imaging, and much more.
Article
What is pharmaceutical statistics?
What do statisticians do in the pharmaceutical industry?
Article
Citizen science: Schumann resonances
Resonant electromagnetic waves, created by lightning flashes, circle the Earth. Wim Hordijk explores the maths and shows how you can keep track with these phenomena.
News story
A very useful pandemic
Cambridge researchers, the BBC, and thousands of citizen scientists have created a revolutionary infectious disease data set.