With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a ...

It’s called a Bille, and as a monostable tetrahedron – that is, a four-sided shape that will always come to rest on the same side, no matter how it’s tossed or thrown around – it has, frankly, been a ...

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For instance, the carbon atoms in a diamond are arranged in a tetrahedral shape. Common salt and fool's gold (iron sulfide) form cubic crystals, and calcium fluoride forms octahedral crystals.

Even so, part of their tetrahedron would have to be about 5,000 times as dense as the rest of it. And the materials had to be stiff — light, flimsy materials that could bend would ruin the project, ...