15 June 2022
The largest numbers are so huge you need special notation to write them down. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee's new book on big numbers will take you to the edge of mathematics
24 March 2021
Beyond the headline breakthroughs, artificial intelligence is a global industrial complex. Having explored its political and social implications, Kate Crawford at Microsoft Research is now focusing on the infrastructure underpinning AI
2 March 2020
Everything from genetic tests to immigration numbers is full of shaky statistics. David Spiegelhalter's new podcast helps separate the factual from the flaky
12 March 2018
Failure to predict Brexit and Trump has created a crisis for the polling industry, but actually errors in election polls have stayed the same over the past 75 years
22 January 2018
Breaking ciphers is like learning to translate a language, so a technique that unscrambled one of the earliest known examples could assist machine translation
10 January 2018
The device lengthens the oesophagus so its two ends can be stitched back together, improving life for children with a birth defect called oesophageal atresia
22 December 2017
The Chinese state hopes to use market forces to encourage energy-hungry firms to seek cleaner alternatives, but simply telling them what to do may be more effective
13 December 2017
A report from the UK Gambling Commission reveals that children are being lured into gambling through “skin bets” in online games
4 December 2017
UNICEF is using artificial intelligence to show what disaster would look like in your city, bringing international charity campaigns closer to home
28 November 2017
A surge in road accidents in Indiana has been blamed on Pokémon Go, but other apps are also likely to be contributing to a rise in crashes
