Game theory suggests that sharing vaccine doses might give a selfish, as well as moral, advantage.

José-Manuel Rey revisits a scene of the film A beautiful Mind.

Find out how deep learning can help improve the images produced by MRI, CT and PET scans, making patients more comfortable and cutting NHS waiting lists.

As London is heading for the 2012 Olympics, it's not just athletes who are gearing up for action. Engineers, too, are working hard to produce the cutting-edge sporting equipment that guarantees record performances. If you're a tennis player, your most important piece of equipment is your racket…

On the 25th of May 1997 a dramatic collision tore a hole into the space station Mir and sent it hurtling through space. As NASA astronaut Michael Foale tells Plus, the fate of Mir and its crew hinged on a classical set of equations.

If only the fittest survive, how can we explain the evolution of altruism? Mathematics has some answers.

What is herd immunity and what does it have to do with a number called R 0?

Why do penalty takers not heed the advice of statisticians? We find out with a little game theory.

Winner of the general public category. Enormous is the right word: this theorem's proof spans over 10,000 pages in 500 journal articles and no-one today understands all its details. So what does the theorem say? Richard Elwes has a short and sweet introduction.