Maths in a minute: Shake to solve

mf344 — Fri, 31 May 2013 09:31:35 +0000

Watch asteroid fly-by with NASA

Rachel — Thu, 30 May 2013 10:28:07 +0000

At 9:59 pm (UK time) on Friday, May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the Moon, its closest approach for at least the next two centuries. And while QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who dabble in radar astronomy and have a 230-foot (70-meter) – or larger – radar telescope at their disposal.

Maths in a minute: Arrow's theorem

mf344 — Wed, 29 May 2013 12:28:03 +0000

Is there a perfect voting system? In the 1950s the economist Kenneth Arrow asked himself this question and found that the answer is no, at least in the setting he imagined.

Chaos: A mathematical adventure

mf344 — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:40:28 +0000

"Everything flows. Everything is movement."

Maths in court and adding up

mf344 — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:02:27 +0000

The scales of justice

Are the laws of physics changing?

mf344 — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:17:24 +0000

Find out why physicists believe they might be in a lecture by John D. Barrow at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution on April 13th.