This year's Nobel Prize for Physics brings together the physics of materials with one of our favourite areas of maths – topology.

Has the future already already been written? Is time just an illusion? Take a step outside of spacetime with cosmologist Marina Cortês to discover the block universe.

Fundamental physics says time is symmetric - so why does time move forwards for us in a block universe?

Is time real? Are we just puppets living out a future already written? Marina Cortês explains why she thinks time is fundamental and that we don't live in a block universe.

Marina Cortês is one of a growing number of physicists who believe time is fundamental. We ask her about the alternatives theories to the block universe, where time comes first.

It would be foolish to ignore evidence. Luckily Bayes' theorem shows us how to take it in into account.

Does reality arise from information? What does this even mean? Anton Zeilinger explains the impact of John Wheeler's radical idea.

We celebrate the 200th birthday of Ada Lovelace, who anticipated modern computers long before they were built, with a look at her life and work.

Continued fractions reveal the good, the bad and the beautiful side of numbers.

Following on from our previous article about curvature of lines and surfaces, we now move up to curvature of their higher dimensional equivalent – manifolds.

The division of plant cells is governed by their shape – just one example of how maths may reveal the fundamental laws underlying biology.

Not just the ingredients for a fairy tale...