Scientists studying glass observed distorted versions of icosahedrons (icosahedron on left, distorted version on right). Image via Science/Chen and Kotani Though artisans have been making glass ...

This observation implied a highly symmetric structure and comparison with density functional theory calculations suggested that a slightly distorted icosahedron – a polyhedron with 20 triangular ...

They projected this archipelago onto an icosahedron consisting of 20 equilateral ... Fuller considered his map the least distorted of all 2-D projections, but its peculiar geometry made it just ...