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By Stuart Roberts, RMIT Growing up I never had a full understanding of just how important mathematics was in everyday life. Mathematics was always my favourite subject in school, but despite how [...]

By Andrew Palermo, Griffith University Sending electricity through your brain sounds harmful and dangerous but in some cases it can change the way your brain works in a positive way. A method, [...]

By Liam Morrow, Queensland University of Technology Non-linear differential equations appear frequently in applied mathematics and are used to describe different physical systems some common ones [...]

By Thomas Moore Cells die all the time. Since you started reading this sentence, you’ve probably lost a few million… And there go a few million more. And of course all these dead cells must be [...]

By Michael Mcphail Many real world systems can be represented in the form of a complex network by representing objects/people/groups as points, known as nodes or vertices, and showing that a [...]

By Angus McClure This summer, together with my supervisor Prof Geoff Mercer, I have been working on constructing mathematical models describing the spread of a disease caused by the bacteria [...]

By Daniel Mahar Consider how much time and money goes into research to enable us to live longer and healthier lives, how much we invest to help us understand what happens inside our body, our [...]

By Zhigen Lin Bones appear to be a hard substance in our bodies that make up our skeleton. They don’t seem to change much after our teenage years. Actually, bone is a dynamic tissue that is [...]

By Tiffany Ngo Leung Tourists from all over the world arrive at Sochi, ready to cheer for the athletes in the Winter Olympics 2014. As they prepare to fly home with wonderful memories and [...]

By Melissa Lee My AMSI VRS project was based on looking at structures embedded in an affine space by viewing them in terms of a game called SET. The game SET was invented by Marsha Falco, a [...]