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Pi Day: How to calculate pi using a cardboard tube and a load of balls

This Pi Day, try calculating everyone’s favourite mathematical constant using balls and a cardboard tube, thanks to a mathematical trick involving the balls’ masses

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Don't miss: Emotional veg, antique innovations and spooky maths

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Don't miss: Maternal artworks, blooming islands and rewarding maths

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Maths says you need coarser coffee grounds to make a perfect espresso

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BDJ269 Welsh language school sign in the village of Croesor in the Snowdonia National Park

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Newyddion gwych! Maths predicts that Welsh language is set to thrive

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Mathematics

Facebook's AI mathematician can solve university calculus problems

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Prime numbers

Physics

Quantum computer sets new record for finding prime number factors

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Maths is all around us: how numbers control our everyday lives

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Maths is all around us: how numbers control our everyday lives

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Mathematics

AI is helping tackle one of the biggest unsolved problems in maths

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Red Deer Stags at the rut

Physics

Grand unified game theory can represent all two-player games

Game theory helps calculate the probabilities of an outcome in adversarial situations, and we use several games as models – but now there’s one that can cover many situations

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Technology

We finally know the odds of winning a game of solitaire

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Humans

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

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Physics

Don’t miss: Art meets science, atoms find love and numbers grow curves

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Physics

AI could solve baffling three-body problem that stumped Isaac Newton

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