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Fighting future pandemicsTake part in an exciting new project and help fight future pandemics!
Maths in a minute: The two envelopes problemWhat's wrong with this probability argument?
Maths in a minute: Euler's identityHere's a quick introduction to the beauty queen amongst mathematical formulas.
Bach and the musical torusIn a previous article we found a Möbius strip in Bach's music. This time it's a doughnut shape.
1012 and other such numbersIf you like playing with numbers, then this one's for you!
New windows on the UniverseFind out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.
Listening for ripples in spacetimeFind out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.
Maths in a minute: How does laser interferometry work?How does LIGO detect gravitational waves? Here is a quick introduction.
Dropping Schrödinger's cat into a black holeSince the detection of gravitational waves we know for sure that black holes do exist. To understand what really goes on inside them we need a new theory.
Maths in a minute: Gravitational wavesA quick introduction to one of the greatest discoveries of the century.
Maths in a minute: Black holesA quick introduction to the monsters that lurk at the centre of each galaxy.
Loo-Q: Clearing aisles and relieving passengersHere we present a worked example of a distributed system in action, to illustrate Leslie Lamport's rules of ordering history using logical clocks.