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Maths explains how bees can stay airborne with such tiny wings
The tiny wings on bees shouldn’t be able to lift their big bodies. How they fly has eluded mathematicians since the 1930s, but the mystery is now solved
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Mathematics has a bad hair day
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It’s not you – solving a Rubik’s cube quickly is officially hard
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Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates
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How YouGov’s experimental poll correctly called the UK election
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Game theory says you should charge your friends to borrow things
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How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes
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Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion
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Physics of shoelaces shows why they come undone when you run
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You can’t legislate against mathematics
As home secretary, Theresa May was impervious to evidence. Her successor Amber Rudd seems intent on following her leader down the path to nonsense
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Maths explains how pedestrians avoid bumping into one another
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Cooling to absolute zero mathematically outlawed after a century
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Celebrate pi day with 9 trillion more digits than ever before
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The maths problems that could win you a million dollars
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