There might be another universe, exactly like our own — except that it’s a perfect mirror image. Physicist Leah Broussard is “on the hunt for a universe that is identical to our own, but flipped so ...

In 1993, Bernard Hourcade, a geographer, sociologist, and Persianist who was the head of Iranian studies at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, got a bit of a shock. After completing ...

Physicists in Germany and Austria have shown that individual atoms can move forwards and backwards at the same time, thanks to photon emission and a carefully placed mirror. They say that this result ...

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing biomolecules in their mirror-image form. The researchers' goal is to create a mirror-image artificial protein synthesis system. Their aim is to produce ...

Intelligence officers are taught to avoid “mirror imaging.” That is, assuming your adversary shares your analytic reference points and thinks the way you do. Americans tend to ascribe to other ...

Throughout their century-old struggle over Palestine — or is it the Land of Israel? — Jews and Arabs often have vied with each other not only for the same land but also for the same words, the same ...