Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Let me explain, first, what the Platonic solids are. To ...

Al lifelong obsession leads to the mysterious hedecatope—a seemingly impossible geometric form that, in its own small way, links together the whole universe. As a little boy I would look into the ...

New research shows a Platonic ideal may be true after all: The world may primarily break into cubes, and not just in Minecraft. In a new paper, researchers from the U.S. and Hungary go through a ...