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Spencer Becker-Kahn: Minimal surfaces
Spencer Becker-Kahn explains what minimal surfaces are and why he likes them.
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Less is more: The quest for minimal surfaces
For over 250 years minimal surfaces have been playing hide and seek with mathematicians. But what are they and why are they interesting?
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The Abel Prize 2019
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck has been awarded the Abel Prize 2019!
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Watching water
Discover the beauty of surface tension!
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Meet the gyroid
What do butterflies, ketchup, microcellular structures, and plastics have in common? It's a curious minimal surface called the gyroid.
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Kelvin's bubble burst again
A new foam with medical potential
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Swimming in mathematics
The mathematics of foam coats Olympic swimming venue
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Getting a handle on soap
Mathematicians find a new minimal surface
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Maths and art: the whistlestop tour
Many people find no beauty and pleasure in maths - but, as Lewis Dartnell explains, our brains have evolved to take pleasure in rhythm, structure and pattern. Since these topics are fundamentally mathematical, it should be no surprise that mathematical methods can illuminate our aesthetic sense.
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Double bubble is no trouble
Four mathematicians have finally confirmed that the familiar double soap bubble is indeed the best way to enclose two separate volumes of air.