I've found learning how to rope braid to be a little different from the traditional three-strand braid and its variants (like the fishtail braid and the four-strand braid). Instead of looking at it ...

This article originally appeared in the December 2015 issue of SELF. For more from the issue, subscribe to SELF and download the digital edition. Sleek, chic, cool—this rope braid is a triple threat.

Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate student Yang Zhang (Ph.D. '24) to discover a new equilibrium state of the ...