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Physics

Authority figures: The numbers that rule them all

Zero and infinity cast long shadows in mathematics, making and breaking equations. But these strange beasts can also explain what numbers really are

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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

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Technology

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

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Environment

Maths explains how bees can stay airborne with such tiny wings

Physics

Mathematics has a bad hair day

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Physics

It鈥檚 not you 鈥� solving a Rubik鈥檚 cube quickly is officially hard

Technology

Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates

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How YouGov鈥檚 experimental poll correctly called the UK election

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Physics

Game theory says you should charge your friends to borrow things

When it comes to buying or borrowing goods, overall cost for society is smallest when people charge for lending

Humans

How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes

Environment

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

Physics

Physics of shoelaces shows why they come undone when you run

Technology

You can’t legislate against mathematics