Physicists have engineered photons that behave as if they inhabit a space far richer than the familiar three dimensions, ...

Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

In 1919, physicist Theodor Kaluza hypothesized that extra dimensions might solve some outstanding problems in physics. And while we haven't found any evidence yet for anything outside our normal ...

(A) Coil system. (B) Tank and helical microswimmer. (C) Real experimental image. (D) Helical microswimmer with detailed shape parameters. The red dashed line indicates the body axis of the helical ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics. Standing in the middle of a field, we can ...

You’re living in a three-dimensional world. We all are. You can go left, right, forward, backward, up, and down. Now, picture a being that can pop in and out of your reality as if pressing a button, ...

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Physicists of the 19th century assumed that space was distinct from time – and two researchers now suspect they were correct to do so. Their conclusion, which comes from considering the behaviour of ...