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Physics

Calming figures: The numbers that maintain harmony around us

From architecture to planetary orbits, these numbers play a vital role in keeping order

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Physics

Authority figures: The numbers that rule them all

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Health

Newborn babies already have a sense of how numbers work

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Health

From statistics to surgery to psychology: Our favourite reads

Culture

Ada Lovelace

Technology

Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo

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Life

Maths explains how bees can stay airborne with such tiny wings

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Mathematics has a bad hair day

Physics

Mathematics has a bad hair day

Culture

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Physics

It’s not you – solving a Rubik’s cube quickly is officially hard

News

Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates

Technology

Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates

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How YouGov’s experimental poll correctly called the UK election

A new approach from the pollsters that dumped old-fashioned representative surveys in favour of big data and fancy statistics got it right

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Physics

Game theory says you should charge your friends to borrow things

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Humans

How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes

Culture

Life

Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion

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Physics

Physics of shoelaces shows why they come undone when you run

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