The story of a submersible vanishing beneath Antarctic ice after glimpsing seemingly impossible structures sounds like science fiction, yet it is rooted in a very real research campaign at one of the ...

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 ...