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A beautiful geometric problem opens the door to the world of metallic numbers.
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New research shows that ventilation is crucial and that masks are effective.
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Dynamic numbers
Holly Krieger has won a Whitehead Prize for work that combines number theory and dynamical systems.
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Taming complexity
Maria Bruna has won a Whitehead Prize for finding a systematic way of simplifying complex systems.
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Black holes win Nobel Prize
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on black holes.
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John Barrow: stories of the Universe
We remember the brilliant cosmologist, mathematician and science communicator, John D. Barrow.
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Going back to uni during a pandemic
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Maths in a minute: N-bonacci sequences
You may have heard about the Fibonacci sequence, but have you heard of N-bonacci sequences?
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Maths in three minutes: Map projections
Getting a different picture of our planet.
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Unlocking the workforce
How can we all get back to work safely in the face of a lingering pandemic?
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The agent perspective
How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.
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Building meaning: dog or ostrich
How do we build our models of the world? Yoshua Bengio explains how deep learning will help machines act to understand the world in a similar way.