Maths is scary but ignoring maths is scarier, and COVID-19 maths is terrifying. Which is why it’s past time we all get to grips with exponentials. There are a lot of numbers floating around with this ...

In any biological system, if you put a living organism into an environment where it can thrive, with unlimited resources and no predators or competitors, it will always grow in the same fashion: ...

The following is the text of a study by Prof Isaac Ben-Israel, first published on April 16, 2020. (Ben-Israel discussed his research on Israeli TV on April 13, saying that simple statistics show the ...

The explosive spread of coronavirus can be turned to our advantage, two infectious disease experts argue: “But only if we intervene early. That means now.” By Siobhan Roberts In early December, Britta ...

A key feature of biological replication is a template molecule's ability to make copies of itself (as in the case of DNA) by selecting the appropriate building blocks (nucleotides) from parts that are ...