News story
A new time machine
Take a journey to the limits of common sense
News story
Gene-ius
The search for the maths gene
News story
Networks: nasty and nice
Maths brings down the Mafia
News story
The artist's fractal fingerprint
Fractal geometry can identify Jackson Pollock's paintings
News story
Elusive twins
A major advance towards the twin prime conjecture
News story
United Kingdom - twelve points
The maths of the Eurovision song contest
News story
Another proof for Fermat's last theorem
A mathematician finds another proof for Fermat's last theorem
Article
Outer space: The rule of two
Infinities are tricky things and have perplexed mathematicians and philosophers for thousands of years.
Article
Article
Chaos in the brain
Saying that someone is a chaotic thinker might seem like an insult - but, according to Lewis Dartnell, it could be that the mathematical phenomenon of chaos is a crucial part of what makes our brains work.
Article
Cracking codes, part II
In the second of two articles, Artur Ekert visits the strange subatomic world and investigates the possibility of unbreakable quantum cryptography.
Article
Genius, stupidity and genius again
Tope Omitola looks back at the tragically short but inspiringly productive life of a true original: Evariste Galois.