For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

A culinarily challenged amplitudologist decided to bake some cookies. To his horror, he discovered that his baking sheet has spontaneously broken a Z2 symmetry: a formerly flat metal sheet, it would ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

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With the Big Bang theory, modern scientists gave us a story about our universe’s birth. With special relativity and quantum mechanics, they elucidated the fundamental characteristics of that universe.

Frank Wilczek has a special fondness for rainbows. It’s not just the show-stopping, full-arc-across-the-sky rainbows that catch the Nobel laureate’s eye. He’s equally transfixed by the array of color ...

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