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Welcome to the FIFA World Cup!
From making penalties fairer or taking the perfect free kick, to designing an ideal ball and predicting results using an octopus, it's all there in our collection of football articles. Take your pick!
Citizen science: Schumann resonances
Find out about the resonant electromagnetic waves circling the Earth, created by lightning.
The maths of randomness
Probability theory – the maths of randomness – makes sense. Fields medallist Martin Hairer explains.
Arithmetic billiards
Stuck on your arithmetic? Try a billiard table!
The cosmic microwave background
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is light left over from the Big Bang. It has revealed a wealth of information about our Universe and turned cosmology into a precision science. How can a single picture tell us so much?
Celebrating Stephen Hawking
On the sad news of Stephen Hawking's passing we look at his professional life and work. The image shows Hawking enjoying zero gravity in 2007 and is courtesy NASA.
Energetic maths
How maths can help keep the lights on!
What's your problem?
Some problems are so complex that, although we know how to solve them in theory, it would take billions of years to find a solution even on the fastest supercomputer. Come on a trip through the world of complexity and meet the famous P versus NP problem.
Complex numbers: Why do we love them?
Have you ever wondered what complex numbers are good for, both within and outside of maths? Find out with this collection of articles and videos.
Stuff happens: Listening to the Universe
Gravitational waves have opened a new window on the Universe. Find out what they are, how they were detected, and what they promise to reveal.
Genetics: Nature's digital code
Is nature using digital tools to deal with genetic information?
Maths in a minute: Chomp
Explore a game that involves biscuits and comes with a surprising mathematical twist — what could be better?
The real numbers and Cauchy sequences
We take the real numbers for granted, but what are they really? Here's an interesting way of looking at them.
Clocking the schedule
The way many football leagues schedule their fixtures can lead to unfair effects — and unsolved maths problems! Dries Goossens, who schedules the Belgian Pro League, explains.
Error correcting codes
Learn about magical mathematical methods for fixing errors on the fly.
Stephen Hawking: Memories of a colleague
What was Stephen Hawking like as a person and colleague? Cambridge mathematicians and physicists remember their most famous colleague with fondness.
A very useful pandemic
Cambridge researchers, the BBC, and thousands of citizen scientists have created a revolutionary infectious disease data set.
Maths in a minute: The axioms of probability theory
Take a quick trip to the foundations of probability theory.