UK students visit South Africa

More opportunities to study further maths

A new resource for maths teachers

Will Einstein's general theory of relativity hold true?

Two game theorists share prize for their analyses of conflict and cooperation

A brief history of time keeping

What do computers and light switches have in common? Yutaka Nishiyama illuminates the connection between light bulbs, logic and binary arithmetic.

Mathematicians in search of romantic success

What happens to bent pasta?

The risks in Who wants to be a millionaire?

In the last issue Lewis Dartnell explained how chaos on the brain is not only unavoidable but also beneficial. Now he tells us why the same is true for our solar system and sends us on a journey that has been travelled by comets and spacecraft.

Physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies has made an unusual move into the infant discipline of astrobiology. He tells Plus about his interest in the big questions: what is life, how would we recognise aliens - and are they all around us?