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New Cambridge-developed resources help students learn how maths can help tackle infectious diseases

19 Feb 2024

Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle...

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Swarming cicadas, stock traders, and the wisdom of the crowd

01 Feb 2024

The springtime emergence of vast swarms of cicadas can be explained by a mathematical model of collective decision-making with similarities to models...

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The Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2023 for Research Impact and Engagement

13 Dec 2023

Meet the winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2023 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.

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NRICH: nurturing next-generation problem solvers

30 Mar 2022

NRICH spent the last two years in emergency rescue mode, helping learners in lockdown. Its online resources attracted over a million page views per...

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Mathematical paradox demonstrates the limits of AI

17 Mar 2022

Humans are usually pretty good at recognising when they get things wrong, but artificial intelligence systems are not. According to a new study, AI...

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Four Cambridge researchers recognised in the 2022 Breakthrough Prizes

09 Sep 2021

Four University of Cambridge researchers – Professors Shankar Balasubramanian, David Klenerman, Suchitra Sebastian and Jack Thorne – have been...

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How accurate were early expert predictions on COVID-19, and how did they compare to the public?

05 May 2021

Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic – experts or the public? A study from the University of Cambridge has...

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Artificial polaritons

Through the looking glass: artificial ‘molecules’ open door to ultrafast devices

03 Mar 2021

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Skoltech in Russia have shown that polaritons, the quirky particles that may end up running the...

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New national modelling group to provide faster, more rigorous COVID-19 predictions

18 Feb 2021

A new national consortium, co-led by the University of Cambridge, will bring together mathematical modellers to produce faster, more rigorous...

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Mathematics explains how giant ‘whirlpools’ form in developing egg cells

13 Jan 2021

The swirling currents occur when the rodlike structures that extend inward from the cells’ membranes bend in tandem, like stalks of wheat caught in a...

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UK modelling study finds case isolation and contact tracing vital to COVID-19 epidemic control

16 Jun 2020

In the absence of a vaccine or highly effective treatments for COVID-19, combining isolation and intensive contact tracing with physical distancing...

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Researcher profile: Professor Julia Gog

08 Apr 2020

Professor Julia Gog is a mathematician who specialises in modelling the spread of infectious diseases, particularly pandemic influenza. For months...

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