Across the physical world, many intricate structures form via symmetry breaking. When a system with inherent symmetry ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, ...

Topological defects govern how many advanced materials behave, but predicting them has traditionally required slow, ...

Machine learning holds great promise for classifying and identifying fossils, and has recently been marshaled to identify trackmakers of dinosaur ...