Fakher F. Assaad

A pendulum swings not in a single plane but in five dimensions at once. Its motion is described by a complex mathematical model, and the pendulum itself is an electron in a graphene sheet interacting with five different "flavors" of its environment.

A pale green crystal was placed in a magnetic field and cooled below one kelvin — almost to absolute zero. Inside it hide chains of copper atoms that behave like tiny magnetic needles. Usually their orientation is chaotic, but the strong field and cold make the needles align in a unified impulse, like soldiers on a parade ground.