Content by Marianne Freiberger

A little trig helps to find the relative distance to the Sun and Moon.

Why maths is an important tool in the fight against Ebola.

The complex maths of weather and climate.

Why there is a limit to how much better computer chips can get and what it's got to do with black holes.

How maths helps us understand and fight infectious diseases.

An impossible equation, two tragic heroes and the mathematical study of symmetry.

If you like to have your mind blown cosmology is a great field to go into. But is it science?

Could the world be simpler than our senses suggest?

Help to build the world's largest distributed fractal!

What gives an equation the right to call itself a law?

What makes a number a constant of nature?

Why cosmologists worry about isolated brains that randomly fluctuate into existence.