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Art, love and war at the 2015 British Science FestivalFrustrated by airport queues? Missing the summer weather? Find solace at this year's festival.
Rewriting the enormous theoremMathematicians are busy tidying up the largest proof in history.
Why wait a second?Why today is 24 hours and 1 second long.
Mindless searchingHow stupid systems can use clever ways of finding things.
Farewell to John NashJohn Nash dies in a car crash aged 86.
It all adds upPresent and future mathematicians celebrating women from across the mathematical sciences.
How to predict an electionForecasting election results is a sophisticated business.
Election perfection?Why a perfect voting system is mathematically impossible.
LHC glimpses hint of new physics Latest observations hint towards new particles.
Slow down, Universe!The Universe's expansion may not be accelerating as fast as we thought.
Find the gapThere's been progress on one of the biggest open problems in maths: the twin prime conjecture.