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What do tying your shoe laces and Santa's Christmas Eve journey have in common?

Using their X-ray vision, astronomers have for the first time found two black holes in the same galaxy, and taken a peek inside a neutron star.

A rare first edition of Newton's mathematical masterpiece has been stolen! And is Newton the Greatest Briton?

NASA uses mathematics to predict lightning strikes at the Kennedy Space Centre

Can the music of Mozart help your mathematics?

Mathematics makes a clean sweep in the Nobel Prizes.

Find out how to beat the world record in stone skimming - you just need to do the maths!

Two computer science students and their professor prove testing for primes is easy - a result that has eluded mathematicians for centuries.

Mathematics is helping the blind move forward and us all to step inside the past.

Can mathematics help defend against another attack?

Maths in a minute

Want facts and want them fast? Our Maths in a minute series explores key mathematical concepts in just a few words.

The force awakens: Quantum collisions

Could there be a fifth force of nature hitherto unknown to science? Find out with physicist Ben Allanach in this episode of Maths on the move.
The Abel Prize 2024: Michel Talagrand

The Abel Prize 2024 has been awarded to Michel Talagrand for ground breaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis.
Take a minute to celebrate pi day!

Celebrate pi day with some of our favourite ideas from the mathematical sciences!
Maths in a minute: Polynomials

Creep up on polynomials with this quick introduction.
It's all connected – climate change and the spread of diseases

We know climate change can impact our lives through weather events and food security, but it can also impact on the spread of diseases. We talk to Helena Stage from the University of Bristol to find out more.