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Bea is a PhD student in the computer science department at UCL. Since joining the team she’s found that the other editors find the phrase ‘it needs more white space’ very triggering.

In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
On the cover: Hydrogen orbitals
Find out more about the weird shapes on the cover of Issue 08
Frawks
Exploring non-random walks using fractions
In conversation with Vernon Morris
The co-author of a recent paper on diversity in professional STEM societies talks about access to science.
Why self-service machines give such awful change
Unexpected item in bagging areAAAARGGGHH here's 90p change in pennies
Fractional calculus: the calculus of witchcraft and wizardry
How can we differentiate a function 9¾ times?