MathsScience & Engineering
Weighing the world
Find out how the world was weighed, through mathematics, on a soggy mountain in Scotland.
What time is it? From sundials to atomic clocks
The simple question of 'what time is it?' started with a stick in the ground and is currently answered by closely observing the inner workings of caesium atoms.
Knot just a piece of string
Have you ever struggled to untie a particularly tight knot, battled with the jumbled mess of cables hidden behind your PC, or wondered why your shoelaces won't stay tied? If so, you're in good company, as mathematicians have wrestled with knots for over 200 years.
Evolution 2.0
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution tells us how every living thing on the planet has been sculpted by natural selection and adapted to its particular environment.
Navigation by the numbers
Maths is fundamental to the design and development of navigation systems. They use many different branches of maths, but particularly geometry, algebra, calculus, and probability.
