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Equations

Mathematics

Facebook's AI mathematician can solve university calculus problems

An artificial intelligence built by Facebook has learned to solve university-level calculus problems in seconds

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Prime numbers

Physics

Quantum computer sets new record for finding prime number factors

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Maths is all around us: how numbers control our everyday lives

Video

Maths is all around us: how numbers control our everyday lives

Video

Numbers on a screen

Mathematics

AI is helping tackle one of the biggest unsolved problems in maths

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Red Deer Stags at the rut

Physics

Grand unified game theory can represent all two-player games

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Hands Playing Solitaire Card Game

Technology

We finally know the odds of winning a game of solitaire

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The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

Humans

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

Culture

Manual Override exhibition

Physics

Don’t miss: Art meets science, atoms find love and numbers grow curves

Culture

Exoplanets

Physics

AI could solve baffling three-body problem that stumped Isaac Newton

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Eugenia Cheng

Physics

Mathematician Eugenia Cheng on the abstract wonder of category theory

Once thought too abstract, category theory has become remarkably pervasive in science, says mathematician and pianist Eugenia Cheng

Regulars

Life

Bees are better at counting if they are penalised for their mistakes

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Mathematics

Mathematicians find a completely new way to write the number 3

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Physics

50-year old maths problem about an infinite lottery finally solved

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Physics

Baffling maths riddle that looks like a pile of worms almost solved

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