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Did you know …

Did you know …

… the human brain is made up of more neurons than there are stars in the galaxy – over 100 billion. Pathways in your brain are rewired second to second as you learn to do new things.

Health & Society

  • The maths of shrinkflation – how your food could be getting smaller

    The maths of shrinkflation – how your food could be getting smaller

    You might have noticed how your chocolate bars have been getting smaller but have stayed roughly the same price. This is called shrinkflation – it is a cunning way of raising prices without actually raising the price of the product you are buying off the shelf. It is only when you sit down and do […]

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  • Fighting Cancer

    Fighting Cancer

    Saving lives with the help of mathematics One in two people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Consequently, cancer treatment is expected to cost the NHS £13.2 billion by 2021, and so there is an urgent need to develop novel and effective therapies to cope with these demands. One of […]

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  • Ratios make baking a piece of cake

    Ratios make baking a piece of cake

    Cooking using ratios is much easier than working from a set recipe.

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  • Contagion! Using mathematical models to save lives

    Contagion! Using mathematical models to save lives

    It takes around four months to produce a new vaccine, meaning that when pandemic strikes, vaccines won’t be the first line of defence.  Instead researchers rely on mathematical models which predict how a disease might spread.

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  • Non-destructive testing with the help of mathematics

    Non-destructive testing with the help of mathematics

    Every day we put our trust in the buildings and vehicles around us, feeling confident that they aren’t going to collapse while we use them. One of the main reasons for this confidence is that a small army of engineers is constantly testing our planes, trains and buildings, looking for cracks or defects so that […]

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  • Dinosaurs to Forensics – Unlocking the past using Mathematics

    Dinosaurs to Forensics – Unlocking the past using Mathematics

    If a suspect leaves a trail of footprints at a crime scene then they are probably very close to being caught. Footprints are highly incriminating evidence and yet they present some major challenges to investigators as they can easily be damaged. In a completely different context palaeontologists are also needing to analyse footprints – studying […]

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  • Advancing medical imaging with the help of mathematics

    Advancing medical imaging with the help of mathematics

    Mathematics is improving the quality of medical imaging, allowing doctors to predict what they will find when they carry out surgery with greater accuracy.

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  • Tackling child malnutrition using mathematics

    Tackling child malnutrition using mathematics

    If you dream about making a difference in the world, then choosing a career in mathematics can help you to do exactly that. All over the world there are mathematics researchers who are helping tackle some of the greatest problems of the modern day such as climate change or the spread of pandemic diseases. One […]

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  • Measuring the weather

    Measuring the weather

    Find out how maths is used to help aircraft in measuring the wind and how it helps make accurate predictions about the weather.

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  • Percolating Possibilities

    Percolating Possibilities

    Imagine you are a farmer who owns an orchard. One of your greatest fears is that blight spreads through your orchard, destroying your crops and ruining your livelihood. You therefore want to know how best to plant your trees in order to minimise the chance of the blight taking over. Mathematicians have modelled this problem […]

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  • Tips on tips

    Tips on tips

    Going out for a meal’s a treat. You’ve enjoyed some good food and someone else is going to wash up – but then comes the bill and the embarrassment of figuring out how much to tip.

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  • What day is it?

    What day is it?

    Where do days, months, and years come from? Keeping track of time is harder than you think.

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