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• Can you solve Martin Gardner’s best mathematical puzzles?

  21 Oct 2014: Alex Bellos: The maestro of recreational maths was born 100 years ago today. Here we celebrate his birthday with eight of his most celebrated puzzles

• Google Doodle forgets to celebrate Christopher Wren the man of science

  20 Oct 2014: Rebekah Higgitt: Today’s Google Doodle marks the birthday of Christopher Wren, the architect, but we should also remember him as an astronomer and founding figure for the Royal Society and Royal Observatory

• Top 10 science and tech books for October: from Brian Cox and wacky Mother Nature to space and pizza

  14 Oct 2014: From the celebration of life on earth and quantum mechanics to the science of dining and how to serve food properly at a party

• Tony McMichael obituary

  13 Oct 2014:

  Australian public health researcher who established the link between climate change and disease

• Nobel prizes 2014 – the winners

  13 Oct 2014: Each prize is worth over a million dollars for those who ‘have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind’
  

• Life and Physics in pictures - No. 2

  11 Oct 2014: Jon Butterworth: Some vaguely physics-related snaps from the past few weeks
  

• Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, William Moerner win Nobel Prize in Chemistry – as it happened

  8 Oct 2014: Two US and one German scientist win Nobels for opening a window into the nanoworld with their development of ‘super-resolved fluorescence microscopy’

• Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to trio for pioneering microscope work

  8 Oct 2014: Winners made it possible to see features at the scale of billionths of a metre, smashing a theoretical barrier for optical microscopy

• Lightbulb moment for Nobel physicists: prize awarded for inventing blue LEDs

  7 Oct 2014: One laureate paid just $200 for invention that allows energy-efficient lighting and could save quarter of world’s electricity

• Nobel prize in physics goes to inventors of blue light-emitting diodes

  7 Oct 2014: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win prize for energy-efficient and environment-friendly blue LEDs

• Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 – as it happened

  7 Oct 2014: Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University, Japan, and Shuji Nakamura of UC Santa Barbara have won for inventing blue light-emitting diodes, ‘a new, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly light source’

• A married couple won the Nobel prize – we know what they go through

  7 Oct 2014: Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together under the pseudonym Nicci French, discuss the pitfalls of living and working together

• Nobel laureates call for a revolutionary shift in how humans use resources

  7 Oct 2014: Eleven holders of prestigious prize say excessive consumption threatening planet, and humans need to live more sustainably

• Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for finding brain’s ‘you are here’ cells

  6 Oct 2014: Winning research answered question that stumped philosophers for hundreds of years: how do we know our place in the world?
  

• Nobel prize find: search for ‘soul of rat’ revealed brain’s navigation system

  6 Oct 2014: Nobel prizewinning discovery shows just how beautiful our brains can be in the patterns they create and weave

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