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 ...

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 ...

The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been mathematicians who have obsessed about Platonic solids, a class of geometric forms that ...