Disruptions to public services are annoying – but that data about these disruptions is more useful than you might think.

How do mathematicians help policy makers make the best decisions? 

We meet some of the researchers who are trying to translate between the two very different worlds of mathematics and politics.

The mathematics of the future needs more specialist maths teachers, stronger university provision, and sustained research funding.

Researchers, policy makers and communicators have distilled out some key principles for making mathematical research more useful for policy makers.

A story from geometry shows how developments in mathematics have fundamentally changed the way we think about the world around us.

This article explores this most beautiful of numbers. Find out its definition, why its value can only ever be approximated, what it has to do with waves, and why it contains the history of the Universe. 

One of the most important mathematicians of her time, Noether also proved a fundamental result in physics.

Ingenious uses of maths have provided the key to internet security, but how can we secure our digital lives in the face of quantum computing?

Find out about lattice-based cryptography – the best candidate for keeping our networks safe in the face of attacks by quantum computers – in this brief introduction.

Researchers from different fields recently came together to improve our understanding of anti-diffusion, the process behind the distinct bands of Jupiter, that also plays a role in our oceans and in developing plasma fusion reactors.

Combining AI with human knowledge of physics may lead to powerful applications in a range of areas — from weather forecasting to engineering.