Geometry has surprising consequences for the behaviour of matter. Living in three dimensions, we're familiar with liquids that abruptly freeze into solids, or crystals under pressure that suddenly ...

For the first time, physicists have built a two-dimensional experimental system that allows them to study the physical properties of materials theorized to exist only in four-dimensional space. An ...

In physics classes it is taught to include units when evaluating formulas with values and to always check that the units work out right in equations. That way we easily detect if we forgot to square a ...

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist. The theory also ...

In 2013, François ENGLERT and Peter HIGGS won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles ...

A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming ...

When you drill down into the very fabric of reality—where elementary particles make up the matter that is you and me and everything around us in three-dimensional space—things get divided nicely into ...

Physicists at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have identified a hidden geometric structure reaching 48 dimensions inside ordinary entangled light, along with more than 17,000 ...

Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs mechanism explained only part of the story. A new wave of theoretical work now ...