By writing a custom computer algorithm that mapped every possible version of a rare class of geometric shapes, 17-year-old Connor Hill from Port Matilda, Pennsylvania, has won the top $250,000 prize ...

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Lineas de Nazca in southern Peru is a colossal artwork drawn directly onto an arid desert plateau, turning the pampas between ...

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German mathematician Edmund Hess was one of the most prolific discoverers of noble polyhedra. Since he first embarked on a ...

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Basilica di San Vitale in Ravenna is an early Christian church where an octagonal plan, plain brick exterior and glittering ...

A research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) has developed a new optical corner-detection imaging method that ...

Connor Hill won the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search after using a computer program to solve a long-standing geometry problem. His proof identified exactly 146 isolated noble polyhedra, settling a ...

Distinctive pottery made in an Arabian oasis more than 3,000 years ago may have ...

The vast desert etchings known as the Nazca Lines, some of the most famous archaeological features on Earth, have yielded a ...