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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.
How Polish cryptographers first broke the unbreakable cipher
Kimi Chen deciphers the 1920s story you haven’t heard
How to make: a chaotic scatterer
Make your own scatterer from some old Christmas decorations
Roots: Gerolamo Cardano
Emma Bell explains why the Renaissance mathematician Gerolamo Cardano styled himself as the "man of discoveries".
Modelling blood
Blood is exceptionally complicated and its composition varies from person to person. So how do we begin to model it?
Roots: Pythagoras of Samos
Pythagoras gave us so much more than a² + b² = c²