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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.
Maths on a boat: Young researchers at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Young researchers at this year's Heidelberg Laureate Forum tell us about their work.
Stuff Happens: Ordering history in computer science
Our digital lives rely on distributed computer systems, such as the internet, but understanding the order of events in such systems is not always straightforward.
Fourier transforms of images
How to make images out of ripples of pixels...
Women of mathematics
Celebrate female mathematicians with this selection of interviews and videos, which accompany the Women of Mathematics photo exhibition.
Who's watching: Context is everything
Imagine your weight depended on the colour of your underwear! Something quite similar may be happening when you are measuring things in quantum physics. Find out more here...
Strategic dating: The 37% rule
Are you stumped by the dating game? Never fear — Plus is here! This article looks at one of the central questions of dating: how many people should you date before settling for something serious?
Watch and learn?
Can the very act of observing something change what's being observed? This series of articles and videos explores some basic questions about the role of the observers in physics.
The shape of things to come: part i
This year's Nobel Prize for Physics brings together the physics of materials with one of our favourite areas of maths – topology.
Fantastic Fibonacci
Bees do it, rabbits do it, and luckily, we humans can do it too: explore the famous Fibonacci sequence!
Gravitational waves get Nobel Prize
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their role in the detection of gravitational waves.
Happy Ada Lovelace day!
Celebrate female mathematicians with these articles and videos.
Fighting future pandemics
Take part in an exciting new project and help fight future pandemics!
Celebrating Black Mathematician Month!
Building a more representative mathematical community
Bach and the musical torus
In a previous article we found a Möbius strip in Bach's music. This time it's a doughnut shape.
Maths in a minute: The two envelopes problem
What's wrong with this probability argument?
A quick chat with Stephen Smale
In this short clip the Fields medallist tells us about his bad marks at school and his fascinatingly eclectic work as a mathematician.
Photo © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Mueck – 2017.
A quick chat with Seth Lloyd
The "quantum mechanic" talks about how quantum computers might impact society and the limits of measurement.
Photo © Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation / Kreutzer – 2017.