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Maths in a Minute: the Leaning Tower of Lire
The surprising physics of stacking coins.
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Maths in a minute: Escape velocity
Would you like to get away from Earth? Here's how fast you would need to go.
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Simone Biles: Defying the laws of physics?
Simone Biles stunned audiences at the 2016 Olympics with a move that appeared to defy gravity. Did it really? Two sports scientists explain the physics of the Biles.
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Maths in a minute: n-body problems
Why too many bodies present a problem.
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Laws and disorder
Can simple equations really describe the complex world we live in?
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Who's looking at you?
Observers are, of course, vital in physics: we test our theories by comparing them to our observations. But in cosmology, as Jim Hartle explains, we could be one of many possible observers in the Universe and knowing which one we are is vital in testing our theories.
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Cereal, sand and snow
As your cereal tumbled into your bowl this morning, were you daydreaming of sand dunes or snowy mountains? It wouldn't be surprising given the drab grey skies outside. But now you have another excuse: the cereal, sand and snow can all be examples of granular flows.
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Maths in a minute: Newton's laws of motion
We've been dabbling a lot in the mysterious world of quantum physics lately, so to get back down to Earth we thought we'd bring you reminder of good old classical physics.
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Schrödinger's equation — what is it?
In the 1920s the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger came up with what has become the central equation of quantum mechanics. It tells you all there is to know about a quantum physical system and it also predicts famous quantum weirdnesses such as superposition and quantum entanglement. In this, the first article of a three-part series, we introduce Schrödinger's equation and put it in its historical context.
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The maths of gold medals: Four Olympic thoughts
It's not the winning, it's the taking part that counts. At least, that's what the Olympic creed would have us believe. But, like it or not, what the media and governments focus on is the tally of gold medals. This article explores some of the maths of gold.
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Making gold for 2012
Last week leading researchers in sports technology met at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London to demonstrate just how far their field has come over recent years. The changes they make to athletes' equipment and clothes may only make a tiny difference to their performance, but once they're added up they can mean the difference between gold and silver.
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Maths on a plane
Phil Trinh discovers how maths helps solve the mysteries of flight and love.