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(In James Doohan’s voice:) “Captain, I cannae get ethical approval for beaming you up.”

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.

The maths before the scalpal
Leszek Wierzchleyski investigates how mathematicians can help surgeons
In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
Chalkdust issue 11 – Coming 17 April
Issue 11 of everyone's favourite magazine for the mathematically curious is coming very soon
Christmas competition #1: ‘You can’t polish a nerd’
Win a DVD boxset from Festival of the spoken nerd in our first Christmas competition!
In conversation with Bernard Silverman
We chat to the chief scientific advisor to the Home Office about the role of scientists and mathematicians in politics
Hunting for polydivisibles
The search for polydivisible numbers in different bases: how many can you find?