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 ...

Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...

Claims of an ancient pyramid in Antarctica grew out of fiction, conspiracy theories, and later Google Earth speculation, but ...

Why it's incredible: El Cono stands alone in the rainforest and has a mysterious pyramidal shape. Cerro El Cono is a 1,310-foot-tall (400 meters), pyramid-like formation in the Amazon rainforest. It ...

Freestanding clusters of twenty gold atoms take the shape of a pyramid, researchers discovered. This is in contrast with most elements, which organize themselves by forming shells around one central ...

A pyramid-shaped Los Angeles home hit the market on Dec. 4 for $2.29 million. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home in Malibu sits at the top of Saddle Peak in the Santa Monica Mountains, according ...