For decades, cosmologists have had an awkward number sitting at the center of their equations. The universe is expanding, and ...

The cosmological constant has been a problem in physics since Einstein, but new research may show why it takes the value that ...

A thermoelectric generator with a shape that no human designer would likely have imagined has now been created by a ...

In a hypertorus model of the Universe, motion in a straight line will return you to your original location, even in an uncurved (flat) spacetime. This multiply connected topology might be able to be ...

As topologists seek to classify shapes, the effort hinges on how to define a manifold and what it means for two of them to be equivalent. Sorting a collection of shapes is child’s play. Circles here, ...