Researchers are closer to proving the digits of pi are random.

Today's digital world with its free flow of information, would not exist without cryptography to guarantee our privacy. Plus meets mathematician, author and broadcaster Simon Singh to find out about the science of secrecy.

Theoretical physicists are searching for a 'Theory of Everything' to reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity - the two great physical theories of the twentieth century. String theory is a current hot favourite, and some of the world's most eminent physicists tell us why.

100 years after the birth of Paul Dirac, mathematicians and physicists gather to celebrate his beautiful work.

Can mathematics help defend against another attack?