In physics, symmetry and the loss or breaking of symmetry refers to states of change. A perfect snowflake is rotationally symmetrical because each iteration in its pattern around the circle remains ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2008 with one half to Yoichiro Nambu for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic ...

Last evening, my colleague Dr. Gitlin and I were discussing science, sipping scotch, and smoking cigars in the Ars Orbiting Headquarters when the topic of today's announcement came up. He asked what I ...

Researchers of physics have found a new way to characterize the rough morphology of driven elastic interfaces in random media. The study shows that such systems exhibit asymmetric roughness, ...

In a new article published in the journal Light: Science & Applications, a team of scientists, led by Hou-Tong Chen of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory, ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State faculty member’s research on asymmetry in protons is introduced in today’s [Feb. 24] edition of Nature, a national publication featuring top-quality peer-reviewed ...

Breaking inversion symmetry in materials allows deviations from Ohm's law, enabling nonlinear effects that could drive future nano- and quantum-electronic devices. (Nanowerk News) The Nanodevices ...