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Chess on wheels: The psychology of the Tour de France The Tour de France, which finishes this weekend, is regarded as one of the world's toughest...
Losing to win: The strangest game in football history Sometimes sporting rules can incentivise teams to do behave in ways that appear to defy logic...
The maths behind the largest ever World Cup sticker book Collecting stickers of players ahead of the World Cup is a much-loved tradition. This...
Kevin Keegan’s cancer diagnosis and a surprising statistical quirk. What car crashes, shark attacks and workplace safety have in common.
Can you solve the GCSE maths problem that ‘baffled’ Young Sherlock Holmes?
An audacious heist at the Louvre saw thieves make off with priceless crown jewels in broad daylight – here is how a decades-old geometry problem can...
New world records in some sports are remarkably elusive, yet in others they seem to fall regularly, as Armand Duplantis's extraordinary pole vault...
Heathrow’s Terminal 4 evacuation shows the power of social contagion.
Heathrow’s Terminal 4 evacuation shows the power of social contagion.
Professional footballers sometimes use a mathematical strategy to help them score a penalty, or save one – and it all comes down to randomness. As...