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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This soccer ball is modeled on a geometric shape called a truncated icosahedron ... forms, all with distorted versions of the familiar hexagon-pentagon pattern! Michael Trott of Wolfram Research ...