Rachel Thomas

What's the safest way to reopen schools? And can testing make things better?

Want to shuffle like a professional magician? Find out how to shuffle perfectly, imperfectly, and the magic behind it.

A journey into the maths of card shuffling gives us a great insight into how mathematicians work.

Modelling shows that your choice of how many households you bubble with this Christmas can make a real difference to the spread COVID-19.

We can't say for sure, but everything depends on how many people agree to be vaccinated.

Modelling shows that old and vulnerable people should be prioritised.

Like any medical drug, vaccines are tested in large-scale randomised controlled trials.

The efficacy of vaccines is estimated from trials, using statistical techniques.

Because the vaccine may not stop transmission of the virus.

Yes the approved vaccines are safe. If you balance the risks, then taking the vaccine is much safer than taking your chances with COVID-19.

How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.