How was the slice made? If the cube’s side is half an inch, what is the side of the hexagon? After dropping the cube into his coffee, the engineer turned his attention to a doughnut lying flat on a ...

Interactive installation designed by Thunda Khatt offers a hands-on introduction to poetry and self-expression.

Higher dimensional spheres, or hyperspheres, are counter-intuitive and almost impossible to visualize. Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards explains higher dimensional spheres and how recent ...

When Ernő Rubik was introducing his colorful, three-dimensional cube at exhibitions and toy fairs in the 1970s, he had trouble convincing people that the puzzle was solvable. Forty years later ...

Perhaps it was caused by a close encounter of the 3-D kind. This sophisticated crop circle uses an optical illusion to give the impression of a three dimensional cube. The creators of the 200ft ...

JILA physicists have created an entirely new design for an atomic clock, in which strontium atoms are packed into a tiny three-dimensional (3-D) cube at 1,000 times the density of previous one ...

Similarly, in our familiar three-dimensional universe, if a four-dimensional ball were to pass through it would appear as a point, grow into a solid ball, eventually reach its full radius, then shrink ...

Erno Rubik was the inventor of Rubik's Cube. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944. As a young boy, Rubik liked to draw and sculpt. Years later, he studied architecture and became obsessed ...