This unusual shape looks sort of like a coiled, corrugated garden hose – but it’s actually a mathematical shape that, until recently, were thought to be impossible to visualize in three dimensions. Flat tori were first demonstrated in the 1950s, and io9 g

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Those people who say physics never did them any good after high school probably never used science toargue their way out of an expensive traffic ticket. Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, was issued a $400 ticket for

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