Does it pay to be nice? Yes, it does. And we're not just talking about that warm fuzzy feeling inside, it pays in evolutionary terms of genetic success too. We talk to Martin Nowak about how the mathematics of evolution prove that being nice is unavoidable.
Jacob Tsimerman has won a Fields Medal for taming wild mathematical structures in algebraic geometry.
What do sound waves, snow flakes and spinning needles have in common? The answer is the mathematics of Hong Wang, who has just won a Fields Medal at the 2026 ICM.
Disruptions to public services are annoying – but that data about these disruptions is more useful than you might think.
How do mathematicians help policy makers make the best decisions?
We meet some of the researchers who are trying to translate between the two very different worlds of mathematics and politics.
The mathematics of the future needs more specialist maths teachers, stronger university provision, and sustained research funding.
Researchers, policy makers and communicators have distilled out some key principles for making mathematical research more useful for policy makers.
A story from geometry shows how developments in mathematics have fundamentally changed the way we think about the world around us.
