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 ...

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 ...

Dimensional Analysis (DA) is a widely used methodology in physics and engineering. The main idea of DA is to extract dimensionless variables based on physical dimensions. Due to its capability in ...

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 ...

In a significant development in the field of superconductivity, researchers have successfully achieved robust superconductivity in high magnetic fields using a newly created one-dimensional (1D) ...

What if the Universe – and fundamentally, space itself – were like a pile of laundry? Have one. See this laundry pile? Looks just like our universe. No? Here, have another. See it now? It’s got three ...

Black holes are messy in four dimensions. But add a fifth, and a black hole could shatter the laws of physics, scientists have shown. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England and Queen ...

A University of Washington-led team has discovered that, by stacking a sheet of graphene onto bulk graphite at a small twist angle (top), “exotic” properties present at the graphene-graphite interface ...