The idea that a hidden fourth dimension could be woven into everyday reality is no longer just a science‑fiction trope.

Last spring, mathematician Henry Segerman found a peculiar post on Facebook. It was by a programmer who had could not conjure mental images---a condition called aphantasia. Segerman immediately ...

In April 1982, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According ...

Regardless of your existing knowledge of science, a fourth dimension of space is a very difficult concept to grasp. This isn’t the fourth dimension of time we’re talking about, but another spacing ...

If you were asked to describe how you can move through the Universe, you'd probably think of all the different directions you were free to move in. You could go left or right, forwards or backwards, ...

Interdisciplinary visual artist Timea Tihanyi and mathematician Jayadev Athreya, who are collaborating on Axiomatic. Photo: Clare McGrane, GeekWire. At first glance, Timea Tihanyi and Jayadev Athreya ...

When you are sent to do a bit of work experience in the office of a university science department you don’t normally expect much more than a bit of boring filing and some tedious photocopying. So ...

Yes, it is possible to create a three-dimensional image of a four-dimensional object: a hypercube is the four-dimensional analogue of a cube, and it has a well-known three-dimensional image that looks ...

The advancement of techniques that can probe the behaviour of individual nanoscopic objects is of paramount importance in various disciplines, including photonics and electronics. As it provides ...

Marc ten Bosch’s side project 4D Toys is a unique physics-based toy box using the game engine he created for Miegakure, a groundbreaking 4D puzzle-platformer. Launched on June 2nd for SteamVR and iOS, ...