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El Niño: What on Earth will happen next?El Niño is a climate event without equal, causing droughts, floods, hurricanes and typhoons around the globe. How can we understand and predict it?
What is a universe?What do we know about our Universe? And could there be more than one?
Einstein and relativity: Part IRead about the rocky road to one of Einstein's greatest achievements: the general theory of relativity, which celebrates its centenary this year.
Einstein and relativity: Part IIGeneral relativity, Einstein's rise to international stardom, and his legacy.
The longitude problemHow longitude presented one of the greatest problems in history.
Latitude by the starsWhy the North Star tells you your latitude.
Finding your place in the worldWhat are global coordinates?
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Maths in a minute: The Navier-Stokes equationsThe mathematical problem with turbulence.
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Outer space: You guessed itIf you are a flower then April is allegedly the cruellest month, but if you are a student of any sort then I'm sure you would have picked June.
How does your garden grow?The division of plant cells is governed by their shape – just one example of how maths may reveal the fundamental laws underlying biology.
Information, decisions and bits A brief introduction to bits and why they're not the same as 0s and 1s.
The physics of elementary particles: Part IIWhat are the mysteries that still remain in particle physics?