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Mindless searching
How stupid systems can use clever ways of finding things.
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What is general relativity?
To celebrate the centenary of the general theory of relativity we asked physicist David Tong to explain the theory and the equation that expresses it. Watch the video or read the article!
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El Niño: What on Earth will happen next?
El Niño is a climate event without equal, causing droughts, floods, hurricanes and typhoons around the globe. How can we understand and predict it?
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What is a universe?
What do we know about our Universe? And could there be more than one?
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Einstein and relativity: Part I
Read about the rocky road to one of Einstein's greatest achievements: the general theory of relativity, which celebrates its centenary this year.
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Einstein and relativity: Part II
General relativity, Einstein's rise to international stardom, and his legacy.
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The longitude problem
How longitude presented one of the greatest problems in history.
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Latitude by the stars
Why the North Star tells you your latitude.
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Finding your place in the world
What are global coordinates?
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Maths in a minute: The Navier-Stokes equations
The mathematical problem with turbulence.
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It all adds up
Present and future mathematicians celebrating women from across the mathematical sciences.
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Outer space: You guessed it
If you are a flower then April is allegedly the cruellest month, but if you are a student of any sort then I'm sure you would have picked June.