Two computer science students and their professor prove testing for primes is easy - a result that has eluded mathematicians for centuries.

Mathematics is helping the blind move forward and us all to step inside the past.

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.

Researchers are closer to proving the digits of pi are random.

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.

100 years after the birth of Paul Dirac, mathematicians and physicists gather to celebrate his beautiful work.

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.