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Researchers hope that working out the behaviours of soft solids, which can act like either solids or liquids, may make for tastier cakes – and safer...

Researchers have built the first biologically realistic mathematical model of how the brain plans and learns when faced with a complex decision-...

Researchers have captured the first 3D video of a living algal embryo turning itself inside out, from a sphere to a mushroom shape and back again...

One in five cases of Lassa fever – a disease that kills around 5,000 people a year in West Africa – could be due to human-to-human transmission, with...

The majority of outbreaks of bovine TB within cattle herds are caused by multiple transmissions routes – including failed cattle infection tests...

Mathematicians are helping to build a better picture of how populations develop immunity to flu and which groups are most at risk of getting – and...

Mathematical modelling is an important weapon in the armoury against crop disease, as plant epidemiologists demonstrated when they turned their...

A mathematical toolkit could dramatically reduce crop losses from pests and pathogens, helping to safeguard future food security.