How should people arrange themselves for maximal socialising at a safe distance?

This puzzle is famous because the accepted answer is counter-intuitive. But is it always correct?

It's one of mathematics' most famous results: every "map" can be coloured using at most four colours. What it doesn't usually apply to, however, are real maps.

David Spiegelhalter, expert in risk and evidence communication, tells us how well the UK government has done so far communicating about Covid-19.

This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis.

A study into Covid-19 suggests that flattening the curve will take longer and harder measures than previously hoped.

We celebrate Karen Uhlenbeck, first female winner of the Abel Prize, and some of the other female mathematicians we met over the last year.

Since pi is the number of round things, we devote this year's pi day celebrations to...curvature!

The "free-range mathematician" and "architect of particle physics" has passed away in Princeton.

The golden ratio has many amazing properties. But is it really a secret of nature and the epitome of beauty?

As the world prepares for the worst, we explore the maths that can help us stop a pandemic.

Explore a mystery that intrigued Stephen Hawking until the end of his life.