This inspiring conference featured speakers from Africa, the US, the Caribbean and the UK. Here are some highlights.
A new study suggests that monkeys have a basic grasp of probabilities.
Simple mathematical rules can make for some interesting psychedelic science.
If you want to climb vertical walls you need very large feet — or be as small as a gecko.
Does the ability to predict the future define the fundamental difference between living and inanimate matter?
The division of plant cells is governed by their shape – just one example of how maths may reveal the fundamental laws underlying biology.
Some things are so familiar to us that they are simply expected, and we may forget to wonder why they should be that way in the first place. Sex ratios are a good example of this: the number of men and women in the world is roughly equal, but why should this be the case? A simple mathematical argument provides an answer.