The term semiregular is used to describe polyhedra that are uniform but not regular. The semiregular convex polyhedra include thirteen solids associated with another ancient mathematician, Archimedes.

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In physics and materials science, the term "spin chirality" refers to an asymmetry in the arrangement of spins (i.e., the ...

In the Introduction and in the Figure 4 legend of this letter, it was stated that the truncated tetrahedron is the only Archimedean solid that is not centrally symmetric. The correct statement is that ...

As well as super-shrinking everyday gadgets such as motors, molecules have also been massaged into shapes that are more mathematical than practical. Michael Ward of New York University and colleagues ...

Chemists have created a molecular polyhedron, a ground-breaking assembly that has the potential to impact a range of industrial and consumer products, including magnetic and optical materials. The ...