Cosmology has an ambitious goal: to understand the Universe in its entirety. Find out more here.
Since he Universe is all there is, there's nothing for it to expand into. So what does "expansion" mean?
The cosmic microwave background is the earliest light we can see in the Universe. So important is this baby picture of the Universe, it's been involved in two Nobel Prizes. Why?
Is the proposed ABBA rule for penalty shootouts really fairer than the existing rule? Maths shows that it is, and also suggests another, more subtle rule.
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Statistics professor John Aston has been appointed as the Home Office's new Chief Scientific Adviser.
Quantum particles that are both light and matter help solve infamous NP hard problems.
Want to understand chaos? Then have a look at this famous brainchild of the mathematician Stephen Smale.
This year's Abel Prize has been awarded to Yves Meyer for the development of an incredibly powerful mathematical tool.