Our world is surrounded by symmetry. Snowflakes and sunflowers exhibit reflectional symmetry around a point. Animals like sharks and starfish are bilaterally the same. It's even hiding in molecular structures like RNA and proteins. Given symmetry’s prevalence in nature, it seems as if life has a preference for symmetry. However, new findings about distinct asymmetry in the universe suggest otherwise.

Inside a lab, scientists can achieve a temperature of absolute zero and analyze how particles move in such a state. Outside of the lab, scientists see trees gathering sunlight and converting the energy to glucose within their leaves. These two phenomena seem unrelated—however, a new study from the University of Chicago suggests that particle motion at low temperatures and photosynthesis may be related.

For the first time ever, scientists at MIT have demonstrated a level of control over a phenomenon known as quantum randomness. If their method is perfected, controlling quantum randomness could lead to a number of scientific breakthroughs in fields like quantum computing and prediction technologies.

Quantum entanglement falls under the laws of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is the study of the behavior of particles inside an atom and photons. Since these particles are so small, they do not behave in the same way that larger objects do, so the rules of classical mechanics cannot be applied.