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With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a ...
“Bille” is the first-ever monostable tetrahedron, or a pyramid-like shape with four triangular faces that has one stable ...
Carbon, one of the most abundant elements in the universe, constitutes many key components of life and technology. Because of ...
Well, consider this: only a few months ago, space exploration company Intuitive Machines reported that a lunar lander had ...
The tetrahedron, which weighs 120 grams and measures 50 centimeters along its longest side, is made of lightweight carbon fiber and dense tungsten carbide. To work, it had to be engineered to a level ...
The geometry of a working monostable tetrahedron construction. (a) Photo of the structure. Frame made of pultruded carbon fiber tubes with outer diameter = 1mm, inner diameter = 0.5mm, density 1. ...
Planar tetracoordinate carbon species subvert the long‐standing paradigm of tetrahedral carbon geometry, demonstrating that a carbon atom can be stabilised in a planar configuration with four ...
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Pyramidal object always corrects itself
A peculiar pyramidal shape, devised by mathematicians, always comes to rest on its base, slowly and uncannily righting itself ...