UK students visit South Africa

A new resource for maths teachers

More opportunities to study further maths

Will Einstein's general theory of relativity hold true?

Two game theorists share prize for their analyses of conflict and cooperation

A brief history of time keeping

What do computers and light switches have in common? Yutaka Nishiyama illuminates the connection between light bulbs, logic and binary arithmetic.

Mathematicians in search of romantic success

What happens to bent pasta?

The risks in Who wants to be a millionaire?

Most of us are aware that Einstein proved that everything was relative ... or something like that. But we go no further, believing that we aren't clever enough to understand what he did. Hardeep Aiden sets out to persuade readers that they too can understand an idea as elegantly simple as it was original.

In the last issue Lewis Dartnell explained how chaos on the brain is not only unavoidable but also beneficial. Now he tells us why the same is true for our solar system and sends us on a journey that has been travelled by comets and spacecraft.