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A crisis in cryptography?

The travels of bank notes give important clues to epidemiologists

Is geometry hard-wired into our brain?

The next total eclipse of the Sun will be in March 2006

How to interact with your music collection

Mathematicians may make the "invisibility cloak" more powerful

The GIMPS project finds a new Mersenne prime

Learning about the history behind maths helps students understand it better

How rappers interact

Was Einstein right?

Maths is not the first thing that springs to mind when you think about fighting crime. But a closer look reveals that it is behind many of the techniques that modern detectives rely on. Chris Budd investigates.