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Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem
The three-body problem, which determines how objects orbit each other in space, is notoriously difficult to solve. Now there are 231 new valid orbits
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The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan
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Humans
Escher’s Journey: there’s more to this artist than his maths
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Mathematics
7 mathematicians you should have heard of 鈥� but probably haven’t
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Mathematics
Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes
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Earth
A simple mathematical rule shapes the behaviour of Arctic ponds
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Physics
Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks
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Humans
Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair
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Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet
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Largest prime number ever found has over 23 million digits
Two multiplied by itself nearly eighty million times minus one is the biggest prime number ever discovered by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
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Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world
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Mathematician set to publish ABC proof almost no one understands
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Humans
Effortless thinking: Why life is more than a zero-sum game
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Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly
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