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Climbing the Twitter ladder

How popular and successful are you? Not as much as your friends is the sad answer, at least as far as Twitter is concerned.
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Why quantum mechanics?

Why did physicists at the beginning of the 20th century feel they needed a new — and strange — theory?
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Big Data

Everybody's talking about Big Data. But what exactly do they mean?
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Eight great reasons to do maths

In 2012 the UK government launched a list of the Eight Great technologies of the future. Here's what they are and what role maths has to play in them.