Report slams US National Institute of Standards and Technology for supporting flawed algorithm
Read article: Standards lab overlooked spy agency’s cryptography ‘back door’, say scientists
Robert P Crease looks at a mathematics conference that could teach physicists a thing or two
Read article: Mathematical bridges
Jon Cartwright examines whether a new form of entropy can revolutionize our understanding of disorder
Read article: Roll over, Boltzmann
"Angry alien spider" emerges from packing calculations
Read article: Finding better ways to pack polyhedrons
Equations trigger the same part of the brain as great works of art
Read article: Beauty is in the eye of the mathematician
Thin layers steer heat around large objects
Read article: Heat cloaks hide objects in 3D
Jon Cartwright looks at what progress the US National Security Agency has made in cracking quantum cryptography codes
Read article: NSA keys into quantum computing
Books about the physics community in Nazi Germany, the roots of radio astronomy and a whole lot of nothing, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Between the lines
Edward Frenkel's love letter to the mathematics that captivates him is "a book to read to be inspired to learn maths" writes reviewer William Gasarch
Read article: Mathematics and prejudice
Active-feedback scheme could preserve fragile state of matter
Read article: How to watch a Bose–Einstein condensate for a very long time
