In 1915 a cook in California accidentally infected 93 people with typhoid. Over 100 years on mathematicians shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding this and other outbreaks of infectious diseases.

Mathematicians are celebrating the new year with a new discovery – the largest known prime number

If you're bored with the average, then move on to the variance!

Statistics professor John Aston has been appointed as the Home Office's new Chief Scientific Adviser.

Our colleague Becky Warren has been distracting us with her wonderful tiling puzzles...

How Heron of Alexandria missed his chance to explore the unknown mathematical land of complex numbers.

Got your popcorn? Picked a good seat? Are you sitting comfortably? Then let the credits roll...

Producing electricity securely, safely, reliably and cheaply has many challenges. Chris Budd explains that the answer to many of these issues is maths.

Quantum particles that are both light and matter help solve infamous NP hard problems.

Want to understand chaos? Then have a look at this famous brainchild of the mathematician Stephen Smale.