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Emilie du Chatelet

Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton's physics

Emilie du Châtelet was a talented mathematician and experimental physicist who took on France's intellectual establishment. But history hasn't done her justice

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free will

Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

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7 pillars

Humans

Radical insights from The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom

Culture

Man having black bushy beard shaved

Physics

The impossible barber and other bizarre thought experiments

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Alan Turing

Mathematics

This Turing machine should run forever unless maths is wrong

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Health

Why so much science research is flawed – and what to do about it

Features

G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) and Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) walk together, deep in conversation

Humans

The Man Who Knew Infinity fails to break the mathematical mould

CultureLab

New maths proof shows how to stack oranges in 24 dimensions

Physics

New maths proof shows how to stack oranges in 24 dimensions

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Graphene origami produced by world's thinnest folds

Humans

Graphene origami produced by world's thinnest folds

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Andrew Wiles, who won the Abel prize this week

Physics

Fermat's last theorem mathematician Andrew Wiles wins Abel prize

Andrew Wiles has won one of the top prizes in maths for solving a problem that dogged number theory for three-and-a-half centuries

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Mathematics

Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in 'random' prime numbers

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Physics

Mathematicians play whack-a-mole in the endless infinity hunt

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Physics

Explanimator: Does infinity exist in the real world?

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Humans

The maddeningly magical maths of John Dee

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