New Scientist on the web
The UK weekly science magazine New Scientist has unveiled a brand new web site.
More hailstones...
Many of our readers have asked for more information about the hailstrone sequence problem from the last issue.
Long range forecast
This year, for the first time, the Met. Office is publishing an experimental long range forecast for the average Central England Temperature.
Kasparov defeated!
Chess world champion Gary Kasparov has been defeated by Deep Blue, the world's highest ranking chess computer.
Editorial
- Allergic to mathematics?
- The inner beauty of pure mathematics
- A journey with mathematics
- Staff room
Mathematical mysteries: the Goldbach conjecture
Are the polls right?
What mathematicians get up to
After 5,000 years, the game of Nine Men's Morris has succumbed to the power of modern computing, plus other recent mathematical discoveries in the world of games.
Understanding turbulence
Student interview - Mark Langley
Daniel Bernoulli and the making of the fluid equation
Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) discovered the relationship between the density of a fluid in a pipe, the speed it is travelling in the pipe and the pressure exerted by the fluid against the walls of the pipe. This is the story of what happened.