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.

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.

The impact of GPS on our lives is celebrated with the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

From flocks of starlings to spiral galaxies: this article explores examples of emergent phenomena in nature.

Human beings are wilful and don't always act rationally. Yet, mathematical models of the behaviour of crowds are surprisingly accurate.

At any point in time there are two points on the Earth's equator with the same temperature.

Sir Michael Atiyah dies aged 89.

Researchers have shown that the fates of our collective memories, whether of a song, a research paper, an invention or a sports star, are all described by the same mathematical equation.

A new prime number with nearly 25 million digits was discovered just in time for Christmas.

Are you an emerging engineer, mathematician or scientist who doesn't have the support of a school, university, or other research organisation? Then the Spirit of Ramanujan project might be able to help.

A hundred years ago Ramanujan was elected FRS. Here is a look at the maths that gained him the title.