'How does nature let this happen?' asked the researchers who made the discovery. When we think about the building blocks of matter, we think about atoms. But in the 5th century B.C.E., one Greek ...

Plato, the Greek philosopher who lived in the 5th century B.C.E., believed that the universe was made of five types of matter: earth, air, fire, water, and cosmos. Each was described with a particular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new analysis suggests rocks are likely to break into their Plato-assigned shape: cubes. The Platonic solids are 3D shapes that ...

On a mild autumn day in 2016, the Hungarian mathematician Gábor Domokos arrived on the geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack’s doorstep in Philadelphia. Domokos carried with him his suitcases, a bad cold, ...