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There are only 13 “Archimedean solids” – a family of symmetrical, 3D polyhedra attributed to the Greek mathematician. Now chemists have made a molecule-scale version of one of these special structures ...

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Edge skeleton of the soft version of the truncated octahedron, a space-filling polyhedron. This soft cell fills space without gaps but has no sharp corners. The faces (not shown) are minimal surfaces, ...

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As well as super-shrinking everyday gadgets such as motors, molecules have also been massaged into shapes that are more mathematical than practical. Michael Ward of New York University and colleagues ...