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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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