helix

Maths may have the answer to why helices are so common in nature.

What do you think?

Mathematicians explore how opinions spread through a society.
What's happening and who's listening?

Why are physicists unsure about what it means to say that something has happened? Anthony Aguirre and Sean Carroll explain.
Calculating the multiverse

If there's a multiverse, then how many of its component universes are like our own?
Blood, oil and water

Sara Zahedi has won a prestigious prize at the European Congress of Maths. Your future medical diagnoses, and even the welfare of sea life, may depend on her work.
Introducing Andrew Wiles

In these two short videos the legendary Andrew Wiles talks about what it was like to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and what it feels like to do maths.
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