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The Abel Prize 2019
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck has been awarded the Abel Prize 2019!
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Celebrating pi day with a new record
Just in time for pi day Emma Haruka Iwao announces that she's calculated a record 31 trillion digits of the beloved number.
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Saving whales using Pythagoras
One of the greatest threats to whales is being struck by ships. Find out how Pythagoras' theorem can help avoid this.
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Happy International Women's Day 2019!
We celebrate International Women's Day with some of our favourite articles and videos from the last year.
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Maths in a minute: Flipping pancakes
In time for pancake day here's a problem about flipping pancakes. It turns out to be surprisingly hard.
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Our theory of very nearly everything: gravity
What is everything made of? In the final article in this series, Elias Gårding takes us to the very edge of our current knowledge.
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Our theory of very nearly everything: quantum fields
What is everything made of? In the third article in this series, Elias Gårding takes us down the QFT rabbit hole.
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Our theory of very nearly everything: matter and forces
What is everything made of? In the second article in this series, Elias Gårding reveals the equation that captures (almost) all the known laws of nature.
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Our theory of very nearly everything: the particles
What is everything made of? Elias Gårding begins a fascinating series of articles that will tell you everything we currently know about the answer to this question.
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The central place of GPS in our lives
The impact of GPS on our lives is celebrated with the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
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The selfish herd
From flocks of starlings to spiral galaxies: this article explores examples of emergent phenomena in nature.
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Cellular automata
Find out how a square grid and some simple rules can generate complex patterns and life-like behaviour.