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Bees in a honeycomb

Life

Bees are better at counting if they are penalised for their mistakes

We had evidence that bees could count up to four. But it seems they can go further - if prompted with both rewards for correct answers and penalties for errors

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The number 3

Mathematics

Mathematicians find a completely new way to write the number 3

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Lottery tickets

Physics

50-year old maths problem about an infinite lottery finally solved

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Colouring book pattern

Physics

Baffling maths riddle that looks like a pile of worms almost solved

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Sunloungers with number 42 on them

Mathematics

Mathematicians crack elusive puzzle involving the number 42

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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs win millions in the 2020 Breakthrough Prize

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numbers artwork

Physics

Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number

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Computer attempts to replicate the dream-like maths of Ramanujan

Physics

Computer attempts to replicate the dream-like maths of Ramanujan

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Fruit machine bars spinning to line of 7s showing probability

Definition

Probability

Mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose

People in Science

Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose is one of the world's most prominent theoretical physicists who in 1965 produced the mathematics that showed how stars collapse to form black holes.

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Galileo Galilei

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Isaac Newton

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Sophie Germain

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Anne Conway

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