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    Time to go retro

    A model of backward causation in which the future affects the past could help unite quantum mechanics and general relativity – and satisfy a challenge thrown down almost a century ago by Arthur Eddington.
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    The cosmic family tree

    Mapping the ancestral history of spacetime in an effort to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity.
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    Is gravity time's archer?

    A new model argues the forces between particles in the early universe loosed time’s arrow, creating temporal order from chaos.
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    The 36 officers problem

    Euler may not have cracked this problem completely, but it led to a lot of important work, including on what we today know as sudoku.
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    The knight's tour

    Can you move a knight on a chessboard so that it visits every square exactly once? Euler was one of the first to analyse this problem systematically, but some questions about it are still open today.
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    Bridges of Königsberg

    The bridges of Königsberg

    Can you find a path through on this city map that crosses every bridge exactly once? Euler's answer to this problem started off the filed of graph theory.

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    Primes without 7s

    James Maynard, one of the prize winners at the European Congress of Mathematics 2016, is counting primes that don't have 7s in them. But why?
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    Blood, oil and water

    Sara Zahedi has won a prestigious prize at the European Congress of Maths. Your future medical diagnoses, and even the welfare of sea life, may depend on her work.