Symmetry runs rampant in nature. It’s present wherever mirror images are repeated, like in the right and left halves of elephants or butterflies, or in the repeating patterns of flower petals ...

More information: Yuki Yamazaki et al, Majorana multipole response with magnetic point group symmetry, Physical Review B ...

A beautiful math emerges from the acrobatic flips of supercold atoms in a magnetic field, researchers report in the Jan. 8 Science. Scientists detected an elusive, complex symmetry known as the E8 ...

The symmetry of faces is simple and bilateral, but other three-dimensional objects can be symmetric in complex ways, leading to different kinds of beauty. Ora looks the same from four different ...

In contrast, the Cooper pairs in topological superconductors exhibit a more complex symmetry. “This symmetry in turn gives rise to special quantum states on the surface of the material known as ...

they display more complex and unpredictable forms of symmetry. Such crystals have been synthesised in the laboratory and were even created by the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in 1945 ...