polar coordinates

Like spirals and flowers? Then you'll love polar coordinates and the pretty pictures they allow you to draw!

What's happening and who's listening?

Why are physicists unsure about what it means to say that something has happened? Anthony Aguirre and Sean Carroll explain.
Introducing Andrew Wiles

In these two short videos the legendary Andrew Wiles talks about what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.
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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.
Political tides

Politician Douglas Carswell has been arguing with scientists about what causes the tides. We've figured out who's right.
Stuff happens: From finance to fundamental physics

Current physical theories suggest that beautiful symmetries underly the fundamental particles and forces of nature. We describe those symmetries using an analogy from economics, and even rediscover the famous Higgs boson.