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Hilbert's hotel
How to squeeze infinitely many new guests into a full hotel.
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Monkeys play the peanut lottery
A new study suggests that monkeys have a basic grasp of probabilities.
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Maths in a minute: The golden ratio
A quick introduction to a famous number.
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Do we live in a hologram?
Physicists have discovered evidence that our Universe might be a giant hologram.
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Maths in a minute: Penguins
We can't let penguin awareness day pass without a look at some penguin maths.
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What made the Moon?
New research suggests that our trusty companion may not have been the Earth's first, but formed from several smaller moonlets.
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Maths in a minute: The graph isomorphism problem
How fast can you tell whether two networks are the same?
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Spontaneous spirals
Simple mathematical rules can make for some interesting psychedelic science.
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The maths of Spider-Man
If you want to climb vertical walls you need very large feet — or be as small as a gecko.
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New £1 coin gets even
The twelve sides of the new £1 coin make it trickier than other coins.
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Simone Biles: Defying the laws of physics?
Simone Biles stunned audiences at the 2016 Olympics with a move that appeared to defy gravity. Did it really? Two sports scientists explain the physics of the Biles.
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Maths in a minute: The catenary
Chains, arches and Wembley Stadium.