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Watch the weird new solutions to the baffling three-body problem

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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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The unfashionable genius of William de Morgan

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M. C. Escher, Day and Night (1938)

Humans

Escher's Journey: there's more to this artist than his maths

Culture

7 mathematicians you should have heard of – but probably haven't

Mathematics

7 mathematicians you should have heard of – but probably haven't

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numbers artwork

Mathematics

Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes

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A simple mathematical rule shapes the behaviour of Arctic ponds

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A simple mathematical rule shapes the behaviour of Arctic ponds

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computer artwork

Physics

Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks

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A selection of dice from archaeological digs

Physics

Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair

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Conceptual art of network

Technology

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

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Prime numbers

Physics

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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Test yourself against these superpuzzles from Japan

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Physics

Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world

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Physics

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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