Two-dimensional systems offer a uniquely rich landscape for exploring phase transitions that diverge markedly from their three-dimensional counterparts. In these systems, reduced dimensionality ...

The formation of blood vessels is a complex process involving the interplay of proteins and mechanic forces. In two studies, a research team at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland, ...

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...