Symmetry attracts us. Studies comparing people’s reactions to different faces have shown, for example, that they find highly symmetrical faces more attractive than less symmetrical faces. The symmetry ...

The 2008 Abel Prize was awarded to John Griggs Thompson of the University of Florida and Jacques Tits of the Collège de France for their contributions to group theory, the mathematical field that ...

Beautiful quasiparticles: E8 symmetry has been spotted in a magnet An unusual form of symmetry known as E8 – which some physicists believe underlies a theory of everything – may have been spotted in a ...