A team of computer scientists has found a weakness in the world's most popular anonymity service.

Mathematicians are busy tidying up the largest proof in history.

How a special kind of curve can keep your data safe.

Fermat's little theorem and fake primes.

How understanding why something is impossible can often lead to deeper understanding, contemplations of philosophy and even new mathematics.

Yes, it does. And we have the maths to prove it.

Why today is 24 hours and 1 second long.

How calculating the height of a frustum gave a glimpse of the mathematical frontier.

Should we let go of the "one person, one vote" principle?

Following on from our previous article about curvature of lines and surfaces, we now move up to curvature of their higher dimensional equivalent – manifolds.