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

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

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

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the ...

What are your research topics? I study how mathematical objects of varying shapes and dimensions react to each other. For instance, can bodies be reshaped to exchange forms without breaking their ...

A Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges relevant to a ...

Researchers uncover the mathematical structure behind mesmerizing tiling patterns, linking their visual appeal to the ...