Nematic order on curved surfaces is often disrupted by the presence of topological defects, which are singular regions in which the orientational order is undefined. In the presence of ...
Lyndsy Fonseca plays a woman who receives a mysterious phone call from herself in the future in Diego Hallivis' sci-fi thriller 'Curvature.' By Frank Scheck If the prospect of watching Linda Hamilton ...
In 1797, English scientist Henry Cavendish measured the strength of gravity with a contraption made of lead spheres, wooden rods and wire. In the 21st century, scientists are doing something very ...
The observed near flatness of galactic rotation curves has long been interpreted as evidence for large amounts of non-baryonic dark matter. Here we show that this phenom ...
Alexander Bobenko has spent the past 20 years chewing on mathematical doughnuts. In the 2000s, he tried to prove that compact ...
Part metaphysical thriller, part inquiry into scientific ethics and the morality of revenge, the sci-fi indie “Curvature” wants to get the heart racing and the mind bending simultaneously, but ...