Mathematicians have spent more than 2,000 years dissecting the structure of the five Platonic solids—the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron—but there’s still a lot we don’t ...

When it was made: Second to fourth centuries A.D. Roman dodecahedrons have baffled archaeologists since 1739, when the first example of the 12-sided bronze object was discovered in the English ...

Roman hollow dodecahedrons ' discovered in various parts of Europe are relics made of bronze and stone dating back to the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, and at least 120 of them have been confirmed to exist ...

Can you do what the world's archaeologists can't? Can you explain this -- thing? It’s been called a war weapon, a candlestick, a child’s toy, a weather gauge, an astronomical instrument, and a ...

AltDynamic, The small design studio responsible for creating a wide variety of different desktop toys machined from a wide variety of different metals. Have returned to Kickstarter this week to launch ...

Lithium atoms on a surface naturally form a rhombic dodecahedron – a 12-sided shape similar to d12 dice – when they are protected from corrosion. The discovery could have important consequences for ...

Researchers claim to have re-discovered forgotten meanings contained within historic architecture, including at Westminster ...