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Ada Lovelace

Technology

Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo

Forget the detractors and the hyperbole, Ada Lovelace warrants her status in the history of science on the facts alone, says Ursula Martin

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Life

Maths explains how bees can stay airborne with such tiny wings

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Mathematics has a bad hair day

Physics

Mathematics has a bad hair day

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turning green squares to solve a Rubick's cube

Physics

It’s not you – solving a Rubik’s cube quickly is officially hard

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Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates

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Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates

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polling

How YouGov’s experimental poll correctly called the UK election

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A man operating a circular saw

Physics

Game theory says you should charge your friends to borrow things

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Humans

How number words may have changed us from zeroes to heroes

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A stuffed thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger

Life

Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion

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Runners tying shoelaces

Physics

Physics of shoelaces shows why they come undone when you run

Slow-motion video and weights tied to the ends of pendulums reveal that the stomping and whipping of our feet cause shoelaces to unknot

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You can't legislate against mathematics

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Humans

Maths explains how pedestrians avoid bumping into one another

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Technology

Cooling to absolute zero mathematically outlawed after a century

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Physics

Celebrate pi day with 9 trillion more digits than ever before

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