Articles about 'mathematical model'

Scientists have created a simple new model of the human brain which reproduces the statistics of its complex network organization.

Mathematical modelling is an important weapon in the armoury against crop disease, as plant epidemiologists demonstrated when they turned their sights on root madness in sugar beet.

New understanding of the physics of clouds is helping to model both climate change and the impact of volcanic eruptions and wild fires.

Assessing the chance of something happening or not happening confronts us all the time. A new programme led by David Spiegelhalter, the Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, is helping improve people's understanding of the mathematics of risk.

Each year more than a million avalanches fall worldwide, killing around a hundred people in the Alps alone. Can mathematical models be used to predict and prevent these disasters?