article Maths in a minute: Euler's identity Here's a quick introduction to the beauty queen amongst mathematical formulas.
article Bach and the musical torus In a previous article we found a Möbius strip in Bach's music. This time it's a doughnut shape.
article New windows on the Universe Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.
article Listening for ripples in spacetime Find out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.
article Maths in a minute: How does laser interferometry work? How does LIGO detect gravitational waves? Here is a quick introduction.
article Dropping Schrödinger's cat into a black hole Since 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.
article Maths in a minute: Gravitational waves A quick introduction to one of the greatest discoveries of the century.
article Maths in a minute: Black holes A quick introduction to the monsters that lurk at the centre of each galaxy.
article Loo-Q: Clearing aisles and relieving passengers Here we present a worked example of a distributed system in action, to illustrate Leslie Lamport's rules of ordering history using logical clocks.
article Clocks to the rescue! Leslie Lamport explains how he used logical clocks to set history straight in distributed systems.