A team of physicists mathematically built an exotic object that they believe could look like a black hole to Earth-based observers but is actually a star. The star is a topological soliton: a smooth, ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Topological protection provides unprecedented robustness of physical phenomena against all kinds of perturbations; but in doing so, it exercises topological censorship by hiding all kinds of ...

Topological physics is a major research topic in modern science. The discovery of topological phases of matter has revolutionized how researchers think about electronic, photonic, and acoustic ...

Topological solitons arise as stable, particle-like field configurations in magnetic and gauge theories, sustained by non-trivial mappings between spatial coordinates and internal order parameters. In ...