advent calendar 2020
This year we lost our dear boss, friend and mentor, John D. Barrow. Here is what we wrote on the occasion of his death.
If they are, the Universe could be really different!
We celebrate Stephen Hawking with some fond memories of his colleagues.
A possible way of resolving the greatest problem of physics.
Explore the biggest problem in modern physics.
As we are well over half way through advent, we thought today we'd look towards the future of the Universe
On the 17th day of advent we explore the birth and death of stars.
On the 16th day of advent we explore the mysterious force that drives our Universe apart.
On the fourteenth day of advent, we consider the night sky...which isn't actually black, but permeated by the faint afterglow of the Big Bang.
There are some interesting answers to this question, including that we live in a bubble multiverse!
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There have been accusations that the modelling projecting the course of the pandemic was too pessimistic. Are they justified?
We all know what turbulence is, but nobody understands it.
Find out about the beautifully intuitive concept that lies at the heart of calculus.
Mathematicians help with clearing the massive NHS backlog for heart conditions.
In some sense, all of maths should come under the label "logic", and in this collection of articles we try to explain why.