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Danger of Death: Are We Programmed to Miscalculate Risk?

Our best efforts to gauge threats may be counter-productive. Assessing risk is something everyone mu ...
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Heads up Kobe Bryant! Research shows that trying for another ...

Basketball fans everywhere recognize the following scenario: Their favourite player scores a three-p ...
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Researchers find best routes to self-assembling 3-D shapes

This showas a few of the 2.3 million possible 2-D designs — planar nets — for a truncate ...
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Millennium Prize: the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture

Elliptic curves have a long and distinguished history that can be traced back to antiquity. They are ...
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Millennium Prize: The Poincaré Conjecture

The problem’s been solved … but the sweet treats were declined. Back to the Cutting Board In 1904, F ...
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Statistically significant

When the statistician for UC Irvine’s innovative Down syndrome program retired last year, its resear ...
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Millennium Prize: P vs NP

Deciding whether a statement is true is a computational head-scratcher. In the 1930s, Alan Turing sh ...
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Millennium Prize: The Hodge Conjecture

If one grossly divides mathematics into two parts they would be: tools for measuring and tools for r ...
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Millennium Prize: the Navier–Stokes existence and uniqueness problem

Among the seven problems in mathematics put forward by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000 is one ...
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Millennium Prize: The Navier–Stokes Existence And Uniqueness Problem

How fluids move has fascinated researchers since the birth of science. Among the seven problems in m ...
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Millennium Prize: the Riemann Hypothesis

What will be the next number in this sequence? “At school I was never really good at maths” is an al ...
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How far away is everybody? Climbing the cosmic distance ladder

Let’s talk numbers for a moment. The moon is approximately 384,000 kilometres away, and the sun is a ...
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A revolution in knot theory

This knot has Gauss code O1U2O3U1O2U3. Credit: Graphic by Sam Nelson. In the 19th century, Lord Kelv ...
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Explainer: Evolutionary Algorithms

My intention with this article is to give an intuitive and non-technical introduction to the field o ...
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How Far Away is Everybody? Climbing The Cosmic Distance Ladder

We know the universe is vast, but how do we measure the distances between things? Dave Scrimshaw. Le ...
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Science, maths and the future of Australia

Australia faces many big challenges – in the economy, health, energy, water, climate change, infrast ...
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