Marianne Freiberger

James Maynard, one of the prize winners at the European Congress of Mathematics 2016, is counting primes that don't have 7s in them. But why?

Geneticists find fascinating clues to the origin of life.

Mathematicians explore how opinions spread through a society.

Sara Zahedi has won a prestigious prize at the European Congress of Maths. Your future medical diagnoses, and even the welfare of sea life, may depend on her work.

Does the famous Fibonacci sequence always appear in sunflower seed heads?

A new study shows they can! At least better than was previously thought.

Mathematical model predicts Olympic success.

How popular and successful are you? Not as much as your friends is the sad answer, at least as far as Twitter is concerned.

Some general ideas in very few words and without equations.

Why did physicists at the beginning of the 20th century feel they needed a new — and strange — theory?

Where does our ability to do abstract maths come from? A new study sheds some fascinating light on the question.