The US election circus is in full swing. Here's a dose of election maths to help you through.

Why a positive test result doesn't necessarily mean you have the disease.

Computer scientists have made a breakthrough in the theory of cake cutting.

Are there problems computers will never be able to solve, no matter how powerful they become?

In the 1930s Alan Turing discovered a computer program that is logically impossible. What other limits are there to computation?

Journey to the limits of computation with a number that's easy to describe but can't be calculated.

Why a DNA match doesn't necessarily prove your guilt.

We all know what we mean when we say that something has happened — well, all except for theoretical physicists. That's because the notion of a "happening" becomes fuzzy when you go down to the foundations of the science. Find out more with these articles and videos.

Mathematicians are working hard to understand an impenetrable proof of the famous ABC conjecture.

Has the future already already been written? Is time just an illusion? Take a step outside of spacetime with cosmologist Marina Cortês to discover the block universe.