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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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Where is Everybody? Doing the Maths on Extraterrestrial Life

Are we getting closer to solving one of life’s greatest mysteries? During a lunch in the summer of 1 ...
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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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Where is everybody? Doing the maths on extraterrestrial life

During a lunch in the summer of 1950, physicists Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller and Herbert York were c ...
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Peer Review: The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning

We are a product of evolution, and are not surprised that our bodies seem to be well-suited to the e ...
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Cutting Cake (And Eating it Too) – The Sticky Maths ...

I work on the mathematics of sharing resources, which has led me to consider emotions such as envy, ...
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Cutting cake (and eating it too) – the sticky maths ...

I work on the mathematics of sharing resources, which has led me to consider emotions such as envy, ...
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Factor Lattices

The objects pictured above are interesting structures – they are derived from the prime factor ...
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Magic numbers: the beauty of decimal notation

While adding up your grocery bill in the supermarket, you’re probably not thinking how important or ...
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Magic Numbers: The Beauty Of Decimal Notation

While adding up your grocery bill in the supermarket, you’re probably not thinking how important or ...
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Getting Projections Right: Predicting Future Climate

Region by region projections of how climate is likely to change over the coming decades help to make ...
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Octonions: The Strange Maths That Could Unite The Laws Of ...

Could a system of eight-dimensional numbers help physicists find a single mathematical framework tha ...
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How linguists are unlocking the meanings of Shakespeare’s words using ...

Today it would seem odd to describe a flower with the word “bastard”—why apply a term of ...
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Explainer: the point of pure mathematics

What is pure mathematics? What do pure mathematicians do? Why is pure mathematics important? These a ...
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