By rethinking how thin metal threads are woven into a flexible textile, EPFL researchers have created a lightweight fabric ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

Since the formulation of the geometric phase by Berry, its relevance has been demonstrated in a large variety of physical systems. However, a geometric phase of the most fundamental spin-1/2 system, ...

The Geometric Period in Greece, which lasted from approximately 900 to 700 B.C.E., is named after the geometric patterns and motifs that were prevalent on pottery at this time. Scholars subdivide the ...