Both single- and two-qutrit holonomic gates can now be realised needing no more than two control loops formed from just three ...

A study of pultrusion based recycling examines how the geometry of discarded PET bottles affects filament quality, highlighting a frequently overlooked variable for anyone turning packaging waste into ...

The gardens of Kashmir reveal another expression of mathematical order. Nishat Bagh is arranged in twelve terraces along a ...

The five Platonic solids are the epitome of perfection—at least in mathematics. Topology explains why there are only five of ...

Monkeys have been found to understand basic geometric problems in a similar way to humans. Geometry is the field of study that investigates the properties of shapes and space. The research team led by ...

With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman primates are considered to be among the smartest creatures on Earth.

Coordinating dozens of muscles typically requires complex neural control, and it is unclear how much of that coordination must come from the brain versus the body’s structure. Professor Mitra Hartmann ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

When most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier-sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...