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James Maynard, one of the prize winners at the European Congress of Mathematics 2016, is counting primes that don't have 7s in them. But why?

What do you think?

Mathematicians explore how opinions spread through a society.

Blood, oil and water

Sara Zahedi has won a prestigious prize at the European Congress of Maths. Your future medical diagnoses, and even the welfare of sea life, may depend on her work.

Some highlights from the ECM 2016

Prime numbers, fluid dynamics and architecture at the European Congress of Mathematics in Berlin.

The Higgs mechanism

How to get massive particles from gold.

The weak force and massive particles

After having explored our economic analogy for the force of electromagnetism, let us turn to the weak force.

Electromagnetic economics

Now let's look at the economic analogy for electromagnetism.

The economic analogy

Here's the economic model we'll use as an analogy for gauge symmetry.

A brief introduction to electromagnetism

We'll start our series of articles with a look at the force of electromagnetism.

The Higgs boson

And finally, here is how the famous Higgs boson gets into the picture.

Citizen scientists count sunflower spirals

Does the famous Fibonacci sequence always appear in sunflower seed heads?

Counting the trees of life

How many possible genetic relationships are there between a collection of different species? The answer is mind-bogglingly large.