Even the 44 polyhedrons that resisted self-assembly could provide fodder for future designer materials. "Some of them we ran and ran [the simulation] and we just couldn't get them to form anything ...

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The five Platonic solids are the foundation for a number of geometric studies, and they encompass the only three-dimensional polyhedrons that are both regular and convex. In other words, they are ...

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 ...