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Has AI cracked a $1m maths problem?

There's been an announcement that an AI system solved one of the most famous problems in maths. Here's a quick look at the problem and why the announcement is significant.

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The lungs of the Earth

How can maths help to understand the Southern Ocean, a vital component of the Earth's climate system?
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Taming water waves

Few things in nature are as dramatic, and potentially dangerous, as ocean waves. The impact they have on our daily lives extends from shipping to the role they play in driving the global climate. From a theoretical viewpoint water waves pose rich challenges: solutions to the equations that describe fluid motion are elusive, and whether they even exist in the most general case is one of the hardest unanswered questions in mathematics.
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Supersonic Bloodhound

In 1997 Andy Green was the first to break the sound barrier in his car Thrust SSC, which reached speeds of over 760mph. Now he and his team want to push things even further with a car called Bloodhound, designed to reach the dizzy heights of 1,000mph, about 1.3 times the speed of sound. Ben Evans explains how maths is used to build this car.