Julian Sahasrabudhe wins a Whitehead Prize for combining different areas of maths using the power of combinatorics.

Even simple rules can lead to interesting processes. Play with Conway's famous cellular automaton to see life-like patterns unfold. 

When a new infectious disease enters a population everything depends on who catches it — superspreaders or people with few contacts who don't pass it on.  We investigate the stochastic nature of the early stages of an outbreak.

Hannah Fry will join us at the University of Cambridge in January as Cambridge's first Professor for the Public Understanding of Mathematics!

Worried about your population of bugs? A branching process can help you understand it.

Physicists have figured out how we might detect hypothetical boson stars. If we do, then this would count as a major step towards solving the riddle of dark matter,

Experts in public health, industry and disease modelling came together this summer to discuss how maths can prepare for the next pandemic.

Trying to solve a Rubik's cube? A Cayley graph gives you a road map for doing this — and is similarly useful for dealing with any other type of mathematical group!

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly important in our society, can philosophy offer us a way to explain decisions made by AI systems?

Learn how lengths, areas, and volumes generalise to the concept of measure, and how this relates to integration and probability.

Frederick Manners  has won a prestigious EMS Prize at the European Congress of Mathematics 2024 for, among other things, a problem involving pyjamas.

Find out what it means for a shape to have fractional dimension.