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Puzzles

Cleopatra the Demented

What's on the cards?

The Gobbling Goat

Put the gobbling goat on a diet

The Great Weights Puzzle

The great weights problem

Solution to Puzzle No. 6 world cup medallions

Can you collect the whole set?

Maths in a minute

Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.

Overbooking: How to avoid plane rage

The practice of overbooking has made uncomfortable headlines lately. But how do airlines decide how many tickets to sell for a flight? Here's the maths.
Happy birthday to the Isaac Newton Institute!

The Institute is celebrating 25 years of bringing researchers together!
LIGO detects a new gravitational wave

The newly observed ripple in spacetime will help us unlock some of the secrets of the Universe.
Remembering Maryam Mirzakhani

The brilliant mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani has died, aged just 40.
Tennis teasers

Fill those gaps between matches, and the tennis vacuum that will ensue after Wimbledon, with some tennis maths!

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