Imagine holding a strip of paper. You give it a half-twist and then tape its ends together. The shape you’re now holding is the ticket to a world where surfaces have only one side and boundaries blur ...

The Möbius band is a fascinating object. You can make a simple model of it by joining the ends of a long, narrow strip of paper after giving one end a 180-degree twist. The result is a one-sided, ...

A Möbius band is a two-dimensional surface with the puzzling property of having only one side. Despite this mind-bending characteristic, it’s an easy object to make: just take a long strip of paper, ...

In the current issue of Nature Photonics, Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt, Dr. Libo Ma and partners present a strategy for observing and manipulating the optical Berry phase in Möbius ring microcavities.

Photonics is a branch of technology development that specializes in the creation of devices that can generate, detect or manipulate light. Recently, researchers at Université Paris-Saclay coined a new ...

For the first time a molecule has been created that is twisted half-way to a Möbius strip shape, causing its electrons to move in a spiral like a corkscrew that alters its chemistry, and can ...

Editor’s Note: Published in 1957, this article comes from Martin Gardner’s legendary Scientific American column Mathematical Games. Read more in our special digital issue, Fun and Games. As many ...

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. As simple experimentation shows, an actual material Möbius strip, made of inextensible material, when left to itself, adopts a characteristic ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester announced that they’ve created a Möbius strip using nothing more than laser light, a bit of liquid crystal and its accompanying electromagnetic field. Those ...

__1790: __Mathematician, astronomer and physicist August Ferdinand Möbius is born in Schulpforta, Saxony (in modern-day Germany). Möbius has name recognition today because of the Möbius strip, which ...