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Louvre robbery: The maths of museum security

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...

31.10.2025 80

BBC

Kit Yates

The maths behind world records

New world records in some sports are remarkably elusive, yet in others they seem to fall regularly, as Armand Duplantis's extraordinary pole vault...

05.10.2025 20

BBC

Kit Yates

Mass hysteria at Heathrow airport – how social contagion works

Heathrow’s Terminal 4 evacuation shows the power of social contagion.

10.09.2025 10

The Conversation

Kit Yates

Mass hysteria at Heathrow aiport – how social contagion works

Heathrow’s Terminal 4 evacuation shows the power of social contagion.

09.09.2025 6

The Conversation

Kit Yates

The mathematics of the perfect penalty shootout

Professional footballers sometimes use a mathematical strategy to help them score a penalty, or save one – and it all comes down to randomness. As...

20.07.2025 40

BBC

Kit Yates

The Fibonacci sequence achieved by Liverpool's win

Liverpool FC's victory at the weekend has clinched them their second Premier League title but it also resulted in something curious – producing a...

29.04.2025 100

BBC

Kit Yates

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say it. That’s why I resigned

04.03.2025 60

The Guardian

Kit Yates