It was the primitive pyramid that caught my eye. I wondered what this construct — it looked like a child’s version of an Egyptian structure sculpted in some dark, pebbly Play-Doh — was doing in a ...

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 ...

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 ...