Rachel Thomas
The Higgs boson: a massive discovery
Does it pay to be nice? – the maths of altruism part i
Does it pay to be nice? Yes, it does. And we're not just talking about that warm fuzzy feeling inside, it pays in evolutionary terms of genetic success too. We talk to Martin Nowak about how the mathematics of evolution prove that being nice is unavoidable.
Does it pay to be nice? – the maths of altruism part ii
Mind the data gap
Disruptions to public services are annoying – but that data about these disruptions is more useful than you might think.
Providing the best evidence
How do mathematicians help policy makers make the best decisions?
Building bridges between modelling and policy
We meet some of the researchers who are trying to translate between the two very different worlds of mathematics and politics.
Helping maths to help us
The mathematics of the future needs more specialist maths teachers, stronger university provision, and sustained research funding.
What makes a modelling paper useful for policy?
Researchers, policy makers and communicators have distilled out some key principles for making mathematical research more useful for policy makers.
A (hi)story of geometry
A story from geometry shows how developments in mathematics have fundamentally changed the way we think about the world around us.
Easy as pi?
This article explores this most beautiful of numbers. Find out its definition, why its value can only ever be approximated, what it has to do with waves, and why it contains the history of the Universe.