Chirality—the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image—has long captivated scientists across biology, ...

Mathematicians’ Favorite Shapes Hold the Key to Big Mathematical Mysteries ...

Topology is a branch of mathematics that describes properties that only change in steps and not continuously - the properties remain intact when an object is stretched, twisted or defor¬med, but not ...

Chirality — the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image — has long captivated scientists across biology, chemistry, and physics ...

By breaking a decades-old paradigm and rethinking the role that the dimension of time plays in physics, researchers from the University of Rostock and the University of Birmingham have discovered ...

Sound waves can be used to control much larger particles, or even objects, such as the membrane in a stereo speaker. For this new study, the research team found a way to generate topological ...

A topological insulator is an insulating material that allows electric charge to flow along its boundary in spin-polarized channels that are topologically protected from impurity scattering. The ...

Before coming to Smith, Patricia Cahn was a Hans Rademacher Instructor at the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. Her research is in ...

However, the machines could prove to be particularly suited to solving problems in mathematics — especially in topology, the branch of maths that studies shapes. In a preprint posted on arXiv in ...