Dimensions beyond the four we’re familiar with could solve a host of problems in physics and cosmology. Columnist Leah Crane ...

Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible field, but from the hidden geometry of space itself. Instead of treating extra ...

For the first time, physicists have built a two-dimensional experimental system that allows them to study the physical properties of materials theorized to exist only in four-dimensional space. An ...

Only 2 years ago, the idea of extra dimensions inhabited a nebulous region somewhere between physics and science fiction. Many physicists had already begun to see the up-and-coming string theory as ...

Try picturing a fourth dimension. Take a few steps forward. Veer left for a second dimension, then jump up for a third dimension. Then dive off into a fourth dimension, somewhere, somehow, in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Current theories suggest that W and Z bosons acquire mass from interactions with the Higgs scalar field, but a new study suggests ...

Higher dimensions: diagram showing how a Bose-Einstein condensate was studied within a quasicrystalline optical lattice. The four intersecting optical lattices are shown in blue. (Courtesy: Ulrich ...

The human imagination has been inspired for centuries by the possibility of a higher dimension. The ownership of this dimension was in the dubious hands of "charlatans, mystics, and science fiction ...