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Edward Frenkel: In love with the art of mathematics

This week on the Guardian's Science Weekly podcast presented by Alok Jha, we hear from celebrated mathematician Edward Frenkel on his passion for numerical calculation. Frenkel discusses his new book Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, a love letter to the beauty of maths and why we need to see great works of mathematical genius with the same openess and wonder that we engage with great...


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100 years ago: Beautiful fungi

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 14 November 1913Fungus – the word suggests poisonous, morbid growths on the decaying vegetation of summer: pallid, unhealthy-looking organisms flourishing in the season of decline upon the death of others. Beauty is seldom associated in our minds with the word fungus. Yet how beautiful many of them are in form and colour; how they show life...

Pollutionwatch: Petrol or diesel?

The lack of recent progress in cleaning urban air can be blamed on the steady increase in diesel vehicles our roads; over half of new cars are now diesel, compared to just 14% in 2000.It is harder to control pollution from diesels than from petrol, and for this reason, European standards for diesel exhaust have not been as strict as those from petrol cars. Access to low emission zones in Germany...