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AI be the judge: The use of algorithms in the criminal justice system 
Could AI help judges deliver fair and transparent sentences? A recent study group involving law experts and mathematicians explored the challenges involved.
A tip of the hat: Celebrating an aperiodic monotile 
Here's a look at the shape that can tile the plane in a non-repetitive pattern — and some of the creative uses people have found for it.
The holographic principle 
Over the last few decades physicists have been developing a curious idea. Perhaps the world we inhabit is a hologram, lacking a crucial feature of the world as we perceive it: the third dimension.
e for exponential 
At the beginning of an epidemic the number of infected people grows exponentially. But why does the number e appear in descriptions of this growth?
The doubling time of a disease 
The doubling time of a disease is the time it takes for the number of cases of the disease to double. How do you calculate it?
Meat free meat with maths 
Don't like plant-based meat alternatives, but want to spare animals and the environment? There's hope on the horizon, aided by a good helping of maths.
Spheres within spheres: A journey through many dimensions 
We guide you through an exciting recent breakthrough in the world of topology, involving something called the telescope conjecture.
Spheres within spheres: Simplicity and failure 
We continue our exploration of the telescope conjecture.