Some general ideas in very few words and without equations.

It would be foolish to ignore evidence. Luckily Bayes' theorem shows us how to take it in into account.

A fascinating discovery sheds new light on the work of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

At the heart of modern physics lurks a terrible puzzle: the two main theories that describe the world we live in just won't fit together.

How stupid systems can use clever ways of finding things.

The mathematical problem with turbulence.

An impossible equation, two tragic heroes and the mathematical study of symmetry.

We enjoyed Manjul Bhargava's Fields medal lecture so much we wanted to share it with you!

There's no doubt that information is power, but could it be converted into physical energy you could heat a room with or run a machine on? In the 19th century James Clerk Maxwell invented a hypothetical being — a "demon" — that seemed to be able to do just that. The problem was that the little devil blatantly contravened the laws of physics. What is Maxwell's demon and how was it resolved?

We've been dabbling a lot in the mysterious world of quantum physics lately, so to get back down to Earth we thought we'd bring you reminder of good old classical physics.

On the face of it, an artist and a theoretical physicist might seem an unlikely pairing. But Turner Prize-winning sculptor Grenville Davey and string theorist David Berman's collaboration is producing beautiful, thought-provoking work inspired by the fundamental structure of the Universe. Julia Hawkins interviewed them to find out more about how the Higgs boson and T-duality are giving rise to art.

When the mathematician AK Erlang first used probability theory to model telephone networks in the early twentieth century he could hardly have imagined that the science he founded would one day help solve a most pressing global
problem: how to wean ourselves off fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy sources.