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Computer-generated art is on the rise, and with it comes a further blurring of the boundaries between maths and art. Lewis Dartnell looks at some stunning examples.

What's your strategy for love? Hold out for The One, or try and avoid the bad ones? How long should you wait before cutting your losses and settling down with whoever comes along next? John Billingham investigates and saves the national grid in the process.

Loquacious maths

Food evolution

Modelling Olympic success

Modelling terrorist activity

Have you got as many friends as you think?

Using sand to create new mathematical models

Mathematics tackles an eternal question

According to Darwin, natural selection is the driving force of evolution. It's a beautifully simple idea, but given the thousands of years that are involved, nobody has ever seen it in action. So how can we tell whether or not natural selection occurs and which of our traits are a result of it? In this article Charlotte Mulcare uses milk to show how maths and stats can provide genetic answers.

Lewis Dartnell turns the universe into a matrix to model traffic, forest fires and sprawling cities.