Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, the study by Alessio Zaccone and the late Kostya Trachenko doesn’t predict population ...

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Pop quiz: what sounds scarier, a pandemic that kills millions or a mathematical equation? According to a new study, it might be the math. Researchers have created a model suggesting global population ...