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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

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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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Technology

You can't legislate against mathematics

Leader

Maths explains how pedestrians avoid bumping into one another

Humans

Maths explains how pedestrians avoid bumping into one another

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Technology

Cooling to absolute zero mathematically outlawed after a century

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Physics

Celebrate pi day with 9 trillion more digits than ever before

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Physics

The maths problems that could win you a million dollars

Six of the seven Millennium Prize problems remain unsolved, but cracking any one of them would be a major – and financially rewarding – achievement

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Physics

Magnets, boiling kettles and the secret code underlying reality

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Earth

Simple equation shows how human activity is trashing the planet

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Space

When computers were human: The black women behind NASA’s success

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Space

Katherine Johnson: The brilliant woman who got the US into space

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