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The Plus advent calendar 2018
If you feel like snuggling up on the sofa with your headphones in, then try our advent calendar filled with some of our favourite Plus podcasts!
Rise of the machines?
Machine learning is the most important recent development in artificial intelligence. Find out how it works, what it can do, where it comes from and whether it's ethical with this collection of articles.
Tools made of light win 2018 Nobel prize in physics
Revolutionary laser tools have won the Nobel prize in physics.
The ICM 2018
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) took place in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of August. This page comprises all the articles, videos and podcasts we made at this mother of all maths conferences, featuring some of the winners of the prestigious prizes that are awarded at the ICM.
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!
Who's watching: The limits of observation
Physics is all about observation, but how much can we actually see? We explore some of the limits of observation — be they natural, scientific, political, or down to the fuzzy quantum nature of reality.
Citizen science: Schumann resonances
Find out about the resonant electromagnetic waves circling the Earth, created by lightning.
Energetic maths
How maths can help keep the lights on!
Who's watching: 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?
Arithmetic billiards
Stuck on your arithmetic? Try a billiard table!
Emmy Noether: Against the odds
A brief look at Emmy Noether's challenging journey to become one of the twentieth century's great
mathematicians.
What is machine learning?
Find out how a little bit of maths enables machines to learn from experience.
Emmy Noether and the power of symmetry
We celebrate the centenary of a mathematical result that changed the character of physics.
Maths in a minute: Higher dimensions
In normal life higher dimensions smack of science fiction, but in mathematics they are nothing out of the ordinary. Find out why the concept isn't as weird as it first seems.
Packing spheres
Maryna Viazovska made a major breakthrough in the theory of sphere packings in 2016. In this article she tells us what she did and how she did it.
Maths around the clock
Bored with 1 to 12? Then have a look at these mathematical clock faces!
Seeing proof
Having trouble with algebra? Then try these visual proofs of two well-known algebraic identities.
'Is that a big number?'
From national debt to theatre capacities – Andrew Elliott's book puts numbers into context.