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Chaos is not a desk toy

Physicists create a quantum Newton's cradle - and witness an absence of chaos for the first time.
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Abel to iPod

The 2006 Abel prize celebrates the mathematician who helped make mp3s possible.
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Anything but square: from magic squares to Sudoku

Get on a commuter train these days and you can virtually see people's brains crunching away at filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into a square grid. As the Sudoku craze shows no sign of slowing, Hardeep Aiden investigates its relatives and predecessors.
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