Chemists have created a molecular polyhedron, a ground-breaking assembly that has the potential to impact a range of industrial and consumer products, including magnetic and optical materials.

Why does the Earth have to be either round or flat? What if there could be a happy middle ground? Welcome to your very own polyhedron Earth.

Wheeler’s more ingenious plane dissections involved polyhedra, cut into smaller polyhedra, that could then be rearranged to form other polyhedra. He and his students first made these models of paper.

https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.3.265 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.3.265 The five Platonic polyhedra combine identical ...

So far in the unit on area in the series on measurement, Daniel has been looking at the area of plane 2-dimensional or flat shapes. In this movie, Daniel extends our understanding of area to ...

Finding the most efficient way to pack simple objects such as spheres has entertained and infuriated mathematicians from Aristotle to the present. Now, a team of physicists and mathematicians in the ...