Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coastlines' intricate perimeters are less "fractal" than thought. In 1967 mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot observed that the ...

Hong Wang, one of this year’s winners of the Fields Medals, which honor the top mathematicians under the age of 40, once ...

Quantum physics is too weird for many people to understand, and part of the weirdness is due to some of its counter-intuitive features. For example, many quantum phenomena are bound by Heisenberg’s ...

It has been known that nanoparticles, for example, exhibit quite different properties from the bulk samples of the same materials. Yet nobody knows why. Ehime University researchers discovered a ...

People most often see fractals in the familiar, irregular branching shapes of nature -- a leaf, or tree, or snowflake. A repeating pattern of ever-smaller branches gives these structures a unique ...

In physics, it is well-known that electrons behave very differently in three dimensions, two dimensions or one dimension. These behaviours give rise to different possibilities for technological ...

Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women worldwide. However, its diagnosis mostly depends on visual examination of radiologic images, leading to an overdiagnosis with substantial costs.

Over the last year, it’s often felt like reality has fractured. Now, a new exhibition opening in Chelsea’s ARTECHOUSE space will let you actually step into a fractal dimension—though this one is less ...