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All tied up
What do tying your shoe laces and Santa's Christmas Eve journey have in common?
X-otic X-ray visions
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.
Stolen science
A rare first edition of Newton's mathematical masterpiece has been stolen! And is Newton the Greatest Briton?
Lightning fast forecasts
NASA uses mathematics to predict lightning strikes at the Kennedy Space Centre
Music to their ears
Can the music of Mozart help your mathematics?
Nobel mathematics
Mathematics makes a clean sweep in the Nobel Prizes.
In skimming, spin's the thing
Find out how to beat the world record in stone skimming - you just need to do the maths!
Prime time
Two computer science students and their professor prove testing for primes is easy - a result that has eluded mathematicians for centuries.
Putting it in perspective
Mathematics is helping the blind move forward and us all to step inside the past.
Anticipating anthrax
Can mathematics help defend against another attack?