Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) around their genomes, a process that—while messy and complex—consistently ...

Chiral gold nanostars show how molecular asymmetry transfers to high-symmetry nanoparticles, producing structures with distinctive optical behavior and enhanced molecular detection. (Nanowerk ...

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A team of physicists has created a maze that they claim is the most difficult, using a pattern from the game of chess to make the structure. To the untrained eye, the maze looks like the most ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Archaeologists are often described as “stumped” or “baffled” by their discoveries. But, in reality, specialists have a good grasp of what most ...

Colleen Wahl, assistant professor of dance at Alfred University, has published a new research paper in the journal Laser that focuses on intersections of math and art. Colleen Wahl, assistant ...

After the star-studded mystery thriller The Number 23 debuted in cinemas in 2007, many people became convinced that they were seeing the eponymous number everywhere. I was in school at that time, and ...

AltDynamic has returned to Kickstarter for a 17th time to launch their new Truncated Icosahedron. Constructed from titanium and steel the wireframe model has been inspired by the 1996 Nobel Prize ...

To mark the return of the Art Basel fair in Hong Kong, the giant external wall of M+ museum, in the West Kowloon Cultural District, will come to life from May 20 with a new video by filmmaker Ellen ...

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