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Not only have we theoretically proven that a tetrahedron always has the same face down, but we have also succeeded in creating it in reality.

A toy called a tumbler is a toy with an egg-shaped hemisphere at the bottom, which stands up on its own even if it is tilted thanks to the weight at the bottom. A mathematician has not only ...
Gizmodo

This Weird Pyramid Always Lands on the Same Face, Confirming 40-Year-Old Theory

“Bille” is the first-ever monostable tetrahedron, or a pyramid-like shape with four triangular faces that has one stable resting position. What this means is that Bille, no matter how you throw it and ...
Wired

This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up

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 ...
Wired

Autonomous NanoTechnology Swarm - and it's from NASA

ANTS is an acronym for Autonomous Nano-Technology Swarm. ANTS technology builds on and advances recent trends in robotics, artificial intelligence, and materials processing to minimize costs and ...
EurekAlert!

This pyramid scheme could be helpful

HOUSTON – (Oct. 21, 2021) – Nature clearly likes symmetry. Look at your own hands, for example. But sometimes nature produces asymmetric things, and the reasons aren’t always clear. Rice University ...