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Period 3 orbits break up into two distinct groups with different shapes

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 2025
Calling all final-year students! This is your opportunity to get your work published as a Chalkdust article.
Chalkdust dissertation prize
Calling all final-year students!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
Crossnumber winners, Issue 17
Did you solve it?
In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
Geographic profiling
Murder, maths, malaria and mammals