The 17-year-old high school senior beat out roughly 2,600 student projects to claim the top spot.

Polyhedrons come in all shapes and sizes. Anything that has multiple faces joined at their edges can be a polyhedron. Picture Earth as a six-sided cube. Or as a triangular pyramid with four faces ...

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Consider what happens when a vertex of one tetrahedron pierces the face of a second tetrahedron to form a new, more complicated polyhedron. In the resulting geometric form, one triangular face has a ...

Until today, scientists only knew of three classes of 3 dimensional solids. Now they’ve got a fourth. This new flavor of shapes are called Goldberg polyhedrons, and they are the first new class of ...

I’ve always loved stargazing. As I write this in late June 2015, it’s rainy season here in Japan—but if the clouds ever part during the evening hours, you’re sure to catch twinkling Venus and nearby ...

COLLEGEVILLE — A Benedictine monk known for his mathematics prowess and stunning polyhedron art died Friday at the retirement center at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville. The Rev. Magnus Wenninger, who ...