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In skimming, spin's the thing
Find out how to beat the world record in stone skimming - you just need to do the maths!
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Prime time
Two computer science students and their professor prove testing for primes is easy - a result that has eluded mathematicians for centuries.
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Putting it in perspective
Mathematics is helping the blind move forward and us all to step inside the past.
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Mathematical mysteries: Transcendental meditation
Nineteenth-century German mathematician Leopold Kronecker once said God created the integers, all the rest is the work of man.
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Beyond reasonable doubt
In 1999 solicitor Sally Clark was found guilty of murdering her two baby sons. Highly flawed statistical arguments may have been crucial in securing her conviction. As her second appeal approaches, Plus looks at the case and finds out how courts deal with statistics.
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Blast it like Beckham?
What tactics should a soccer player use when taking a penalty kick? And what can the goalkeeper do to foil his plans? John Haigh uses Game Theory to find the answers, and looks at his World Cup predictions from last issue.
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Pi not a piece of cake
Researchers are closer to proving the digits of pi are random.
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Safety in numbers
Today's digital world with its free flow of information, would not exist without cryptography to guarantee our privacy. Plus meets mathematician, author and broadcaster Simon Singh to find out about the science of secrecy.
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Tying it all up
Theoretical physicists are searching for a 'Theory of Everything' to reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity - the two great physical theories of the twentieth century. String theory is a current hot favourite, and some of the world's most eminent physicists tell us why.