The primes are the building blocks of our number system, but there's no general formula that will give you all of them. If you want them, you have to hunt them down one by one. Abigail Kirk investigates a method that does just that.

Alan Turing is the father of computer science and contributed significantly to the WW2 effort, but his life came to a tragic end. Stefan Kopieczek explores his story.

Peter Macgregor explores the beautiful world of the infinite.

Liz Newton finds that having a small brain doesn't stop you doing great things.

When the famous diagram fails

Neil Pieprzak tells the fascinating story of Andrew Wiles who, with intense devotion and in secret, proved a deceptively simple-looking conjecture that had defeated mathematicians for almost 400 years.

José-Manuel Rey revisits a scene of the film A beautiful Mind.

Phil Trinh discovers how maths helps solve the mysteries of flight and love.

Lewis Dartnell turns the universe into a matrix to model traffic, forest fires and sprawling cities.

According to Darwin, natural selection is the driving force of evolution. It's a beautifully simple idea, but given the thousands of years that are involved, nobody has ever seen it in action. So how can we tell whether or not natural selection occurs and which of our traits are a result of it? In this article Charlotte Mulcare uses milk to show how maths and stats can provide genetic answers.