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The maths of Spider-Man
If you want to climb vertical walls you need very large feet — or be as small as a gecko.
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New £1 coin gets even
The twelve sides of the new £1 coin make it trickier than other coins.
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Simone Biles: Defying the laws of physics?
Simone Biles stunned audiences at the 2016 Olympics with a move that appeared to defy gravity. Did it really? Two sports scientists explain the physics of the Biles.
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Maths in a minute: The catenary
Chains, arches and Wembley Stadium.
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Andrew Wiles: what does it feel like to do maths?
We were very excited to meet Andrew Wiles this summer! In this interview and videos he tells us what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.
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Maths in a minute: Fourier series
How the heat equation inspired the maths that powers the entertainment industry.
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Bach and the musical Möbius strip
Discover (and listen to) the Möbius strip that's hidden within one of Bach's famous canons.
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Tricky arrangements
Mathematicians have proved a new result in the field of combinatorics.
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The shape of things to come: part i
This year's Nobel Prize for Physics brings together the physics of materials with one of our favourite areas of maths – topology.
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MathsJam VII - The force awakens
Music, cakes and mathematical horses...Alison Kiddle reports on this year's MathsJam.
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Watching the cosmos
When it comes to the entire cosmos, we humans are incredibly small and insignificant. But that's precisely why we need to take ourselves into account when thinking about the Universe. Find out why.
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Watch and learn
A brief introduction to the strange theory of quantum mechanics and how it appears to afford a special role to observers.