Jamie Paik and her team of researchers at EPFL's School of Engineering have created an origami-like robot that can change shape, move around and interact with objects and people. By combining ...

Polygons can be regular or irregular in shape. A polygon is a closed 2D shape with at least three sides. A regular polygon is a polygon with all equal sides and angles. An irregular polygon is a ...

Jason Lotay explains how mathematicians studying special geometries are collaborating with physicists to explore M-theory, an 11-dimensional description of the world that unifies the various string ...

Help sort shapes in a shape factory. Look at examples of shapes to see if they belong in a polygon group, or set. Examine examples of shapes that do not belong in the set. What features do you think ...

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 ...

Today on the 'Name That Thing' quiz, we will test how much you know about geometric shapes. Here are four types of polygons in the image below. Can you tell what these are called in mathematics? What ...

When two mathematicians raised pointed questions about a classic proof that no one really understood, they ignited a years-long debate about how much could be trusted in a new kind of geometry. In the ...