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Two questions lie at the beginning of any writing process. Who you are speaking to and what you want to say?

"What's a statistician's favourite sandwich filling?" Presenter, writer and comendian Timandra Harkness tells us how to make maths funny.

Having empathy with your audience – with all your audiences – is the first step for making your content accessible. Hannah Thomas from the Government Analysis Function explains how you can help.

What are the challenges of communicating from the frontiers of mathematical research, and why should we be doing it?

Celebrate this year's International Women's Day with some of the articles and podcasts we have produced with women mathematicians over the last year!

Tom Irving tells us about providing a bridge between policy and mathematics during the pandemic, the importance of transparency, and discussing the R number at the hair dressers.

David Spiegelhalter's book Sex by numbers takes a statistical peak into the nation's bedrooms. In this interview from 2015 he tells us some of his favourite stories from the book.

Can maths help us understand how ants, of such little brains, manage to cooperate so brilliantly?

Find out why liquid metal batteries hold much hope in our move to renewables.

We talk to world-leading climate scientists Tim Palmer about climate and weather, the science of uncertainty, and why there needs to be a CERN for climate change.

Discover the fascinating maths behind rainbows, rogue waves and many more applications that is being explored by researchers at the INI

There are several ways in which it can and studies suggest they could be safe and effective.