While you can twist physical materials into a Möbius strip—to make chairs, tables and even buildings—until now it’s been impossible to do the same with light. But researchers from the Max Planck ...

Twisting the light away: Schematic representation of an optical Möbius strip with three half-twists. The blue sticks and balls show the instantaneous direction of the polarization and the black ...

Twist a two-dimensional strip of paper then tape its ends together and it transforms into a one-sided loop. It’s not magic; it’s a Möbius strip. These mathematical structures show up everywhere from M ...

Scientists say they have cracked a nearly eight-decade-old riddle involving the Möbius strip, a mathematical phenomenon that has also become an icon of art. Popularised by the Dutch artist MC Escher, ...

In the field of symplectic geometry, a central issue involves how to count the intersection points of two complicated geometric spaces. This counting question is at the heart of one of the most famous ...

Long known as curious mathematical objects lacking a separate "inside" and "outside," Möbius strips have also captured the imagination of artists like M. C. Escher, whose painting Möbius Strip II ...