On December 19 of last year, a research team from the Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Science Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan ...

The mobius strip, a geometrical object with no beginning and end, is gaining popularity in public art and among corporations, which view it as a way to symbolize transformation, evolution and ...

M. C. Escher sketched them in pencil, now scientists are creating them out of photons. Möbius strips are a three-dimensional shapes with only one surface. It’s not hard to make one yourself: take a ...

Imagine holding a strip of paper. You give it a half-twist and then tape its ends together. The shape you’re now holding is the ticket to a world where surfaces have only one side and boundaries blur ...