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Particle hunting at the LHC: the standard model

CERN's Large Hadron Collider is one of the few scientific experiments to sparked wide-spread media coverage, particularly with the 2012 announcement of the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson. So what really goes on at CERN and why the hubbub about the Large Hadron Collider, known as the LHC?

The secret club of diverse triangles

Using theatre to teach primary school maths.

What is a black hole – mathematically?

Pau Figueras explains how Einstein's theories predicted the existence of black holes, and how to describe them mathematically.

What is a black hole – physically?

Small, dark, and very hard to see. This and far more indepth answers to every question you ever wanted to ask about black holes.

Ramanujan surprises again

A fascinating discovery sheds new light on the work of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Physics in a minute: What's the problem with quantum gravity?

At the heart of modern physics lurks a terrible puzzle: the two main theories that describe the world we live in just won't fit together.

George Boole and the wonderful world of 0s and 1s

The story of George Boole is an extraordinary example of collaboration across the centuries.

Power networks

Why do so many networks exhibit a similar kind of structure? It's because the rich tend to get richer!

Maths in a minute: The power of powers

The powers of x can work magic.

Maths in a minute: Continued fractions

Continued fractions reveal the good, the bad and the beautiful side of numbers.