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Space

Lost in space: Two books on the forgotten women of astroscience

Once upon a time “computers” were human, most were women, and come the 1950s some of them were black – and they were charting a path to the moon

Culture

Katherine Johnson

Space

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

Features

An octofoil

Life

Molecules tied into beautiful 'octofoil' knot for first time

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Winton Gallery of maths

Technology

Imagination not interaction: inside London’s new maths gallery

Culture

puzzle blocks

Culture's Puzzle Page: It's Christmaths…

Culture

Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

Life

Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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Postage stamp of mathematician Sierpinski

Physics

Crowdsourced prime number could help solve a 50-year-old problem

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Maths says delaying Article 50 could bring better Brexit deal

Humans

Maths says delaying Article 50 could bring better Brexit deal

Comment

Numbers chalked on pavement with feet and legs in view

Humans

Blind people use brain's visual cortex to help do maths

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bullfighters

Humans

Metaphysics special: What is reality made of?

Molecules are made of atoms, atoms of particles, and particles are quantum fluctuations. But where do consciousness, dark matter and mathematics fit in?

Features

Humans

We are gods of the future – but what will we do?

Culture

Physics

Mathematicians finally starting to understand epic ABC proof

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Technology

The life and work of Alan Turing: Discovery weekend

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Technology

How Alan Turing found machine thinking in the human mind

Culture

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