The concept of the octagonal house was idealized by Orson Squire Fowler in his 1853 book “A Home for All: Or a New, Cheap, Convenient and Superior Mode of Building.” Fowler, a phrenologist who ...

In one instance, when researchers were mapping Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, they came across a mysterious comb of octagons imprinted on the seafloor. Findings were published in the ...