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  • In a paper posted online in August, Steininger and Sergey Yurkevich (opens a new tab) — a researcher at A&R Tech, an Austrian transportation systems company — describe a shape with 90 vertices and 152 faces that they’ve named the Noperthedron (opens a new tab) (after “Nopert,” a coinage by Murphy that combines “Rupert” and “nope”).

    First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine Erica Klarreich 2025

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