Humans
Escher’s Journey: there’s more to this artist than his maths
Escher's work is instantly recognisable; now a visionary new show in his home town reminds us why it's good
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Mathematics
7 mathematicians you should have heard of – but probably haven’t
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Mathematics
Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes
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Earth
A simple mathematical rule shapes the behaviour of Arctic ponds
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Physics
Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks
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Humans
Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair
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Physics
Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet
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Physics
Largest prime number ever found has over 23 million digits
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Physics
Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world
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Physics
Mathematician set to publish ABC proof almost no one understands
After a five year struggle, Shinichi Mochizuki’s epic ABC proof may finally appear in a journal, but it is still not clear if mathematicians understand his work
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Humans
Effortless thinking: Why life is more than a zero-sum game
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Environment
Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly
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Humans
The Soviet genius who tried to beat capitalism at its own game
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Humans
Wrong division: How maths can save democracy from gerrymandering
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