Predicting how wildfires will behave is a complex endeavour, and requires sophisticated simulation models.
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Astrology and astronomy were once practiced side by side by scientists like Galileo and Kepler. And they’re more similar than you might think.
Understanding why people underpredict expenses could help them budget more accurately – and even encourage them to save more money.
The danger of treating COVID-19 as an astronomically rare and improbable event is that we will treat it as such and fail to prepare for the next pandemic. And there will be another pandemic.
Policy-makers at various levels of government rely on models and simulations to make predictions about controlling the spread of COVID-19.
Online bookies can tap into the wisdom of the crowd better than pollsters.
Marine heatwaves may become the new normal for the Tasman Sea and the ocean around New Zealand, and oceanographers are developing models to better predict their intensity.
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