Greene offers up a garden hose as a good example of what the fourth dimension looks like. From far away, this garden hose may ...

A new mathematical model reveals how swallowing works and sheds light on esophageal motility disorders, offering hope for ...

By extending a proof of a physically important behavior in one-dimensional quantum spin systems to higher dimensions, a RIKEN ...

Gears have powered the world for millennia, from clock machines to car engines. But miniaturizing them to microscopic ...

If you’re struggling to wrap your head around the idea of further dimensions, this scientist’s garden-hose analogy may help.

Zhang Zhongchen was once a night guard at Beijing Film Academy who snuck into lectures. Now his accomplished second feature, ...

The question seeks to find a maximum value for the area of a sofa that can slide around a 90-degree corner in a corridor of a ...

Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?

“For instance, suppose you heat the right half of a solid and cool the left half, and then isolate it,” says Chiba. “Energy ...

The British mathematician Charles Howard Hinton introduced people to the fourth dimension using a practical approach: a climbing frame.

Lauda and his colleagues solve some of the problems with topological qubits by using a class of theoretical particles they ...

With corny dogs and more just a week away, Big Tex, the 55-foot cowboy that's the face of the State Fair of Texas, made his season debut at Fair Park on Friday.