Marianne Freiberger

Politician Douglas Carswell has been arguing with scientists about what causes the tides. We've figured out who's right.

Some uncomfortable problems in our understanding of life.

This problem about an infinite sum has a surprising answer.

This surprising result about 3D shapes tells us something deep about the nature of space.

Euler may not have cracked this problem completely, but it led to a lot of important work, including on what we today know as sudoku.

Can you move a knight on a chessboard so that it visits every square exactly once? Euler was one of the first to analyse this problem systematically, but some questions about it are still open today.

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?