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Period 2 points (dots) and their orbits (lines)

Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

Chalkdust dissertation prize
Calling all final-year students!
A daredevil’s disaster
Donovan Young goes round the bend exploring what happens when the loop-the-loop goes wrong
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
How to be more Pythagoras
Max Hughes investigates how channelling your inner Pythagorean may help you to become the next big lifestyle influencer
Football free-kicks… taken by Newton
Discover the mysteries behind the most spectacular free-kick ever scored and how Newton can help us to simulate it.
In conversation with Marcus du Sautoy
We chat to Marcus about science communication, teaching mathematics in schools, and how to make group theory sound sexy.