Articles from category Mathematics

Human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV particles (pink-colored) collected from a cell culture, as seen under an electron microscope. Image taken at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA. Photo: NIAID/Flickr

Tracking HPV: How mathematics helps medicine

Poland has one of the highest cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates in Europe, as well as one of the lowest five-year survival rates. The five-year survival rate is commonly…

Researchers at the University of Warsaw have developed the Method of Equal Shares for participatory budgeting. Will local governments in Poland's largest cities adopt the idea? Pictured: Warsaw. Photo: ClickerHappy/Pixabay

The formula for justice: How can mathematics help improve participatory budgeting?

How can participatory budgeting be truly participatory? Warsaw mathematicians have found a solution. What's more, the method they developed is already proving successful – not only in the scientific community…

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic. In the photo: a doctor touches the hand of a sick loved one through a glass partition.

How to predict the next pandemic? Can scientists foresee the future?

The year 2020 showed that borders do not exist – at least not for pathogens. By the end of 2019, reports began to surface about a mysterious form of pneumonia…