Deep space has just delivered a cosmic curveball: an object that behaves so strangely it appears to break the rules astronomers use to describe how the universe grew up. The discovery centers on an ...

M.C. Escher's artwork is a gateway into a world of depth-defying optical illusions, featuring "impossible objects" that break the laws of physics with convoluted geometries. What you perceive his ...

Meet “impossibagel,” a physically impossible bagel that mathematicians use to resolve intricate geometry problems. But impossibagel—and other “impossible objects” in mathematics—is notoriously ...