Since its resounding return to Netflix, the series "Squid Game" has fascinated audiences as much for its plot as for its mysterious symbols. Geometric shapes—circles, triangles, and squares—are ...

While Squid Game viewers have long wondered about the meaning of the triangle, square, and circle shapes that regularly appear in the series, program creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has given a definitive ...

Researchers captured sound fields around musical triangles. They wanted to understand the physical properties of the triangle instrument, test assumptions about the contribution of the triangle shape, ...

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...

About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a ...