physics

A new time machine

Take a journey to the limits of common sense

Editorial

Einstein Year 2005

Dancing with Einstein

The Institute of Physics and Rambert Dance Company are planning to celebrate the theories of Einstein through dance.

Editorial

Optional maths - should students be able to give up maths at age 14?
Outer space - In what will now be a regular feature, mathematician and cosmologist John D. Barrow shares some maths that's amused and intrigued him.
Readers' corner- More Strange activities for last issue's Ship of Fools!

Nobel mathematics

Mathematics makes a clean sweep in the Nobel Prizes.

Career interview: Science communicator

Science writer and exhibition researcher Alison Boyle tells Plus about her work creating up-to-the-minute news exhibits at the Science Museum in London.

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.

A call to action on COVID-19

An urgent call has gone out to the scientific modelling community to help fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Two Cambridge mathematicians are helping to lead the charge.
The agent perspective

How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.
Building meaning: dog or ostrich

How do we build our models of the world? Yoshua Bengio explains how deep learning will help machines act to understand the world in a similar way.
Is life unbounded?

Acknowledging that life is going to go on for a little while yet throws a different light on how we make decisions in a crisis.
Myths of maths: The four colour theorem

It's one of mathematics' most famous results: every "map" can be coloured using at most four colours. What it doesn't usually apply to, however, are real maps.

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