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Solid Shapes

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Daily Mail

Scientists discover a new SHAPE for the first time in 400 years (but it just looks like a football)

Ancient Greek mathematicians – most notably Plato - classified solid shapes thousands of years ago. Since then, remarkably few geometric ‘solid’ forms have been discovered and the last collection was ...
BBC

3D Shapes

Four people dressed as detectives walk past with magnifying glasses. NARRATOR: This song is all about shapes. Not flat shapes like circles and squares, but solid shapes like cubes and cones. Let’s ...
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After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes

The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been mathematicians who have obsessed about Platonic solids, a class of geometric forms that ...
TechSpot

Scientists develop micro-robots that can flow like a fluid or collectively assemble into solid shapes

In a nutshell: Researchers have developed minuscule robots that can "assemble" and behave like a collective, building new shapes and tools. Inspired by nature, the team identified and developed the ...
Gizmodo

After 400 years, mathematicians have found a new class of solid shapes

The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been mathematicians who have obsessed about Platonic solids, a class of geometric forms that ...
BBC

Properties of 3D Shapes

A 3D shape with all straight edges and flat faces is a polyhedron. Other 3D shapes with least one curved surface are not polyhedra. A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is ...