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How maths can help you create the perfect Christmas Day

Physics

How maths can help you create the perfect Christmas Day

Present-buying, turkey-carving, how to pull a cracker… this year Jacob Aron decided to see if mathematics could help him calculate the perfect Christmas

Features

High-res movie lets you float by a comet with Rosetta spacecraft

Space

High-res movie lets you float by a comet with Rosetta spacecraft

News

Mathematicians left baffled after three-year struggle over proof

Physics

Mathematicians left baffled after three-year struggle over proof

News

First glimpse of lost library of Elizabethan polymath John Dee

Physics

First glimpse of lost library of Elizabethan polymath John Dee

News

<em>Star Wars</em> universe passes real-world test for alien head count

Life

Star Wars universe passes real-world test for alien head count

News

God vs the multiverse: The 2500-year war

Space

God vs the multiverse: The 2500-year war

Features

Physicists struggle to squeeze new particles from the LHC

Physics

Physicists struggle to squeeze new particles from the LHC

News

Raft made of dust carries water droplets across a sea of oil

Technology

Raft made of dust carries water droplets across a sea of oil

News

Black holes have a size limit of 50 billion suns

Space

Black holes have a size limit of 50 billion suns

News

Painting by numbers with the design book <em>Mathematics and Art</em>

Physics

Painting by numbers with the design book Mathematics and Art

From Renaissance painters' first use of perspective to artistic algorithms shaping 21st-century works, mathematics and art have a long, rich history

CultureLab

Humans

How to win at game theory

Features

Humans

Why you shouldn't believe many of the numbers you read

Features

Humans

How to get rich with maths

Features

Humans

How not to get duped by coincidences

Features