They say symmetry is beauty, which makes a lot of sense. It’s the balance of equal proportions. It’s a sort of geometric perfection. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’re going to capture it.

Symmetry is on the hunt for the best analogy to describe neutrino oscillation, the process by which a neutrino changes from one flavor to the next. This summer the most powerful neutrino detector in ...

We've all heard the stories of great ideas first scribbled down in a bar on any convenient surface, often a cocktail napkin. We've also heard many cases of colleagues in bars asked to describe just ...

Perfect symmetry. It’s how we define beauty, but photography tends to shy away from it. Here are 19 pieces of proof that symmetry really is beautiful. Winner: The Beer Can Building When this challenge ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Symmetry also has an aesthetic meaning, although this is ...

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 ...

To begin to understand what mathematicians and physicists see in the abstract structures of symmetries, let’s start with a familiar shape. We are fond of saying things are symmetric, but what does ...