Rachel Thomas

The International Mathematical Union has celebrated its 100th anniversary with a conference entitled Mathematics without borders.

Modelling shows that your choice of how many households you bubble with this Christmas can make a real difference to the spread COVID-19.

To celebrate the recent centenary of the first major test of Einstein's general theory of relativity, we look back over how our picture of gravity has changed.

How to unjam traffic.

Find out how OKCupid's algorithm works.

Sir Michael Atiyah dies aged 89.

How Heron of Alexandria missed his chance to explore the unknown mathematical land of complex numbers.

Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.

Find out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.

The Kochen-Specker theorem shows that quantum mechanics is always going to be strange. Its proof is surprisingly simple!

Physicists have finally detected the gravitational waves they have been chasing for nearly 100 years.