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Introducing Andrew Wiles

In these two short videos the legendary Andrew Wiles talks about what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.

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Political tides

Politician Douglas Carswell has been arguing with scientists about what causes the tides. We've figured out who's right.
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Time to go retro

A model of backward causation in which the future affects the past could help unite quantum mechanics and general relativity – and satisfy a challenge thrown down almost a century ago by Arthur Eddington.

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The cosmic family tree

Mapping the ancestral history of spacetime in an effort to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity.
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Is gravity time's archer?

A new model argues the forces between particles in the early universe loosed time’s arrow, creating temporal order from chaos.
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The 36 officers problem

Euler may not have cracked this problem completely, but it led to a lot of important work, including on what we today know as sudoku.