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 ...

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 ...

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

The atoms within quasicrystals are arranged in repeating forms, but unlike ordinary crystals they have more complex symmetry. It turns out this makes them perfect for producing mazes ...

But in a few special materials, Cooper pairs break this time-reversal symmetry so that Majorana fermions no longer form pairs. “In time-reversal-symmetry-breaking topological superconductors, a single ...