The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately ...

Across ancient civilizations, pyramids appear in places that never contacted each other, from Egypt to the Americas. The reason is surprisingly simple. The pyramid shape is one of the strongest ways ...

A remote mountain peak in Antarctica has stirred global attention thanks to its near-perfect pyramid shape. Tucked away in the icy Ellsworth Mountains, the structure was spotted via satellite imagery ...

Like new and protective parents, engineers watched as the TETWalker robot successfully traveled across the floor at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Robots of this type will ...