Mathematics

An unusual tennis competition that pits amateurs against professionals in one-point matches is launching at the Australian Open.

Wrapping awkwardly shaped Christmas presents is always a headache, but here's the formula for perfect gift wrap.

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 help museums boost their security.

New world records in some sports are remarkably elusive, yet in others they seem to fall regularly. There is a good mathematical reason why.

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

Liverpool FC's victory at the weekend has produced a strange series of numbers in the league's record books.

As the clocks go forward this spring, see if you can solve these puzzles based on ancient calendars.

Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".