Chemists have stretched 'topology' to cover many different concepts — protein folds, supercoiled macromolecules, shapes of curves and surfaces, not to mention molecules and orbitals with truly ...

MIT physicist 'Riccardo Comin' successfully mapped an electron’s shape in motion, unlocking breakthroughs in quantum physics, ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Seismic wave data previously suggested the Earth’s hot inner core is slowing its spin. Now, researchers say it’s also ...

A new study shows that the inner core changed shape in just a few decades, challenging previous assumptions and revealing ...

Two-dimensional (2D) shapes are completely flat. They have two dimensions – length and width. A polygon is a closed 2D shape with straight sides that meet at vertices. Polygons can be regular or ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

A new study proposes a way to use weak gravitational lensing data to test the long-held Cosmological Principle of the ...

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