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Mathematics

How a typo spoiled my proof of Fermat’s last theorem

The tale of Fermat's last theorem took hundreds of years and included tantalising twists, disappointing errors and a contribution from the most unlikely cartoon mathematician imaginable

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Mathematics

This mathematical trick lets you work out the weekday of any date

Regulars

How the covid-19 pandemic distorted our experience of time

Health

How the covid-19 pandemic distorted our experience of time

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Physics

Physicists in 2024 searched the quantum realm for the truth about time

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The wild physics that could actually be used to build a time machine

Physics

The wild physics that could actually be used to build a time machine

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Physics

These are the most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024

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Space

Super-bright black holes could reveal if the universe is pixelated

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Space

Why does our universe have something instead of nothing?

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The physicist who argues that there are no objective laws of physics

Physics

The physicist who argues that there are no objective laws of physics

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Mathematics

Why the problem of P versus NP is worth $1 million

Mathematician Tom Crawford explains what P versus NP means – and what makes the problem so fiendishly difficult to solve

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Health

How bad is modern life for our body clocks – and what can we do?

Culture

Physics

How the most precise clock ever could change our view of the cosmos

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Mathematics

The mathematical theory that made the internet possible

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Physics

How Einstein was both right and wrong about gravitational waves

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