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We're helping the Government Office for Science to bring you an Olympic challenge for National Numeracy Day!

The mathematics of movement can describe the behaviour of all types of organisms, from cancer cells to humans.

Don't like plant-based meat alternatives, but want to spare animals and the environment? There's hope on the horizon, aided by a good helping of maths.

We guide you through an exciting recent breakthrough in the world of topology, involving something called the telescope conjecture.
(Figure on the left by Niles Johnson.)

Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem solved a centuries-old problem by opening a door onto the future of mathematics.

How can maths help to understand the Southern Ocean, a vital component of the Earth's climate system?

Predicting the weather requires a lot of physics, a lot of maths, and a whole lot of data. But with more data and computing power becoming available, artificial intelligence may be able to help.