Marianne Freiberger

The cosmic microwave background is the earliest light we can see in the Universe. So important is this baby picture of the Universe, it's been involved in two Nobel Prizes. Why?

Straddling the boundary between pure and applied mathematics.

Is the proposed ABBA rule for penalty shootouts really fairer than the existing rule? Maths shows that it is, and also suggests another, more subtle rule.

In 1915 a cook in California accidentally infected 93 people with typhoid. Over 100 years on mathematicians shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding this and other outbreaks of infectious diseases.

Statistics professor John Aston has been appointed as the Home Office's new Chief Scientific Adviser.

How Heron of Alexandria missed his chance to explore the unknown mathematical land of complex numbers.

Quantum particles that are both light and matter help solve infamous NP hard problems.

Want to understand chaos? Then have a look at this famous brainchild of the mathematician Stephen Smale.

Find out what gravitational waves will tell us about the Universe: from understanding its birth to figuring out whether black holes have hairs.

Find out about the heroic effort that led to the detection of gravitational waves and the excitement of their discovery.

Why do most of us stick to social rules? Game theory offers an explanation.