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The complex properties of radioactive plutonium-239 made its structure hard to analyse – until now. The result may improve methods for storing nuclear waste

Working out the minimum number of circles needed to fill a complicated shape could have applications in medicine and Wi-Fi security

Two decades ago, Maurice Ward invented a fireproof substance that outperformed all known materials. Why wouldn't he reveal its secret, asks Richard Fisher

A quantum property called entanglement has been used to teleport a quantum state 97 kilometres, smashing the previous record

Can a single entity be matter and antimatter at the same time? It looks like it, say Michael Brooks and Richard Webb

With FatFonts, the area of each digit is exactly proportional to its value, a system that could transform the art of data visualisation

The amazing electrical properties of graphene have inspired the creation of a perspex material with remarkable sound-channelling characteristics

Microscopic light beams that turns corners could make curving incisions in the body and improve the way microscopic components are carved and transported

World-famous mathematician breaks his decades-long silence over how he turned the odds of roulette against the house

The next generation of lab-on-a-chip devices could be made out of patterns of cracks rather than with conventional channel-carving techniques

Some analysts say shares of the social networking behemoth are vastly overvalued and investors may fall victim to another stock price bubble

By taking a closer look at the usage of words like "to" and "that", mathematicians track changing literary styles across the centuries

Evidence for the excited neutral Xi_b baryon was hard to find amid the particle detritus at the Large Hadron Collider

A shape has finally been visualised that had evaded mathematicians since the 1950s, including John Nash

The elusive particles could reveal Earth's origins and inner workings – if only we can catch enough of them, says Anil Ananthaswamy