A plan to cover a Giza pyramid with granite cladding has been called “absurd” after its proponents promised it would deliver “a gift from Egypt to the world”. The project aims to restore the Pyramid ...

Every BlackBerry smartphone user knows the game Brick Breaker. New to the BlackBerry PlayBook is Blocks of Pyramid 2 which is the same concept but just 1000 times better. As you would expect you ...

The Menkaure Pyramid Review Committee (MPRC) has unanimously rejected a plan to restore the granite casing blocks scattered around the base of the smallest of three Pyramids of Giza for thousands of ...

The pyramids of Egypt were constructed using millions and millions of large, granite and limestone blocks, some of which weighed between 25 and 80 tons. Reuters There are an estimated 2.3 million ...

"There's been a lot of research in making superstructures from spherical nanoparticles, but much less using tetrahedral building blocks," said Ou Chen, an assistant professor of chemistry at Brown and ...

In research that may help bridge the divide between the nano and the macro, chemists have used pyramid-shaped nanoparticles to create what might be the most complex macroscale superstructure ever ...