If you've ever wanted to live in a mathematical head-scratcher, the Moebius House is the home for you. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not ...

In geometry, there are surfaces that do without an inside or outside—and some need at least four dimensions to exist ...

Sometimes, the most humble things are the most difficult to fathom. Take the Mobius strip, a simply configured mind bender that continually amazes. It is sometimes introduced as a question to young ...

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 ...

The Möbius strip or Möbius band is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. It has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It is also a ruled surface. It was ...

Editor’s Note: Published in 1957, this article comes from Martin Gardner’s legendary Scientific American column Mathematical Games. Read more in our special digital issue, Fun and Games. As many ...

Math isn’t just about numbers—it’s also about patterns and shapes. One of my favorite shapes is the Möbius strip, a mind-warping surface with only one side. It’s simple to make one: Just take a strip ...

M. C. Escher sketched them in pencil, now scientists are creating them out of photons. Möbius strips are a three-dimensional shapes with only one surface. It’s not hard to make one yourself: take a ...