Geometry has surprising consequences for the behaviour of matter. Living in three dimensions, we're familiar with liquids that abruptly freeze into solids, or crystals under pressure that suddenly ...

For the first time, physicists have built a two-dimensional experimental system that allows them to study the physical properties of materials theorized to exist only in four-dimensional space. An ...

In physics classes it is taught to include units when evaluating formulas with values and to always check that the units work out right in equations. That way we easily detect if we forgot to square a ...

A physicist proposes that time has three dimensions instead of one, which could finally unite quantum mechanics and Einstein’s relativity into a single theory. The theory makes specific, testable ...