Mathematics

• Decision-making: Risk school - Premium content

  Can the general public learn to evaluate risks accurately, or do authorities need to steer it towards correct decisions? Michael Bond talks to the two opposing camps.

  28 October 2009

• MUSE: What toys can tell us - Premium content

  Sometimes all you need to do scientific research is string, sealing wax and a bit of imagination, says Philip Ball.

  5 October 2009

• MUSE: When does punishment work? - Premium content

  The outcome of games designed to tell us how we behave may depend on who 'we' are. Economists and evolutionary biologists should take note, says Philip Ball.

  28 September 2009

• Cells go fractal - Premium content

  Mathematical patterns rule the behaviour of molecules in the nucleus.

  4 September 2009

• Flu shot guidelines criticized - Premium content

  Mathematical model suggests that US experts got their priorities wrong.

  20 August 2009

• How raindrops fall - Premium content

  Exploding drops produce miniature showers.

  20 July 2009

• Tsunami forecast in real time - Premium content

  Russian tsunami modeller seizes unexpected opportunity after New Zealand earthquake.

  16 July 2009

• Science education: Reading, writing and nanofabrication - Premium content

  With its electron microscope, genetic sequencing machines and observatory, the Yokohama Science Frontier High School is equipped like no other. Will future scientists be inspired there, asks David Cyranoski.

  8 July 2009

• Snakes use scales to slither - Premium content

  Mathematical model suggests 'sideways' friction is key.

  8 June 2009

• Hidden riddle of shapes solved - Premium content

  Mathematicians crack the Kervaire invariant problem.

  1 May 2009