With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a ...

Here, electric vehicle (EV) makers treat the car as a creative medium, not a mechanical constraint. The shapes are often ...

For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations.

Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Granada have found a way to speed up the architectural design of vaults and ...

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a ...

The implications of what's about to happen this summer will reshape the industry and mold the competitive balance of the NHL.

Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a simple pencil-and-paper geometry exercise. To ...

For comparison, if this were a flat tax system at 24% (the taxpayer's highest marginal rate), the total tax would be $195,000 x 0.24 = $46,800. That's about $7,150 more than under the progressive ...

They are commonplace because we learn about two-dimensional versions of these shapes as children: triangles, squares, dodecahedrons, and other convex polygons [a polygon is any flat shape made ...

In December 1930, for example, Stevens snapped a photo looking westward while flying at an altitude of 21,000 feet (6,400 meters) above Villa Mercedes, Argentina.