Beautiful quasiparticles: E8 symmetry has been spotted in a magnet An unusual form of symmetry known as E8 – which some physicists believe underlies a theory of everything – may have been spotted in a ...

An exotic type of symmetry -- suggested by string theory and theories of high-energy particle physics, and also conjectured for electrons in solids under certain conditions -- has been observed ...

A beautiful math emerges from the acrobatic flips of supercold atoms in a magnetic field, researchers report in the Jan. 8 Science. Scientists detected an elusive, complex symmetry known as the E8 Lie ...