Maria Droujkova and Yelena McManaman expected to answer questions about math when they came out with their first book, "Moebius Noodles: Adventurous Math for the Playground Set," earlier this year.

On December 19 of last year, a research team from the Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Science Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan ...

Imagine holding a strip of paper. You give it a half-twist and then tape its ends together. The shape you’re now holding is the ticket to a world where surfaces have only one side and boundaries blur ...

You have most likely encountered one-sided objects hundreds of times in your daily life – like the universal symbol for recycling, found printed on the backs of aluminum cans and plastic bottles. This ...