(Nanowerk News) Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs), which have an extremely high anisotropy with a hyperbolic dispersion relation, are rising as an innovative method of manipulating light. HMMs have ...

"Hyperbolic metamaterials" could bring optical advances including powerful microscopes, quantum computers and high-performance solar cells. The graphic at left depicts a metamaterial's "hyperbolic ...

Even the most brilliant innovators get their inspiration from somewhere. For the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, such a creative impetus came from a particular illustration in a 1957 mathematical ...

This originally appeared in the July/August issue of Discover magazine as "Your Hyperbolic Mind." Support our science journalism by becoming a subscriber. The human brain is both a marvel and a ...

Hyperbolic space is a Pringle-like alternative to flat, Euclidean geometry where the normal rules don’t apply: angles of a triangle add up to less than 180 degrees and Euclid’s parallel postulate, ...