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List by Author: Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas
Mathematics without borders 
The International Mathematical Union has celebrated its 100th anniversary with a conference entitled Mathematics without borders.
New windows on the Universe 
Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.
Listening for ripples in spacetime 
Find out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.
Colouring by numbers: The Kochen-Specker theorem 
The Kochen-Specker theorem shows that quantum mechanics is always going to be strange. Its proof is surprisingly simple!
Going with the flow 
By the 1970s physicists had successfully tamed three of the fundamental forces using a sophisticated construct called quantum field theory. The trouble was that the framework seemed to fall apart when you looked at very high or very low energy scales. So how could these be thought of as valid theories? It's a question physicists are still grappling with today.
Strong but free 
The early 1950s were an experimental gold mine for physicists, with new particles produced in accelerators almost every week. Yet the strong nuclear force that acted between them defied theoretical description, sending physicists on a long and arduous journey that culminated in several Nobel prizes and the exotic concept of "asymptotic freedom".
Do infinities exist in nature? 
Is the Universe finite or infinite? Is there infinity inside a black hole? Is space infinitely divisible or is there a shortest length? We talk to philosophers and physicists to find out.