List by Author: Marianne Freiberger

Stephen Hawking: Milestones of a life in physics

A quick tour to some of Hawking's most significant achievements.

Cosmic models

Cosmology has an ambitious goal: to understand the Universe in its entirety. Find out more here.

Cosmic sound

Taking apart the CMB picture using the maths of sound.

If our Universe is expanding, then what is it expanding into?

Since he Universe is all there is, there's nothing for it to expand into. So what does "expansion" mean?

Cosmic peaks

Some of the Universe's most important secrets are hidden in the shape of a beautiful undulating curve: the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave spectrum. This article explains how.

The cosmic soup

To understand the why the cosmic microwave background tells us so much about the Universe, you first need to understand what created it: sound waves travelling through the early Universe.

The cosmic afterglow

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?

Making penalties fairer

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.

The shape and fate of the Universe

How will the Universe end? In a big crunch? Or a big freeze? It all depends on its shape...

Mathematician advises the Home Office

Statistics professor John Aston has been appointed as the Home Office's new Chief Scientific Adviser.

Quantum device solves very hard problem

Quantum particles that are both light and matter help solve infamous NP hard problems.

Smale's chaotic horseshoe

Want to understand chaos? Then have a look at this famous brainchild of the mathematician Stephen Smale.