Meteoroids coming from outer space are randomly shaped, but many of these, which land on earth as meteorites, are found to be carved into cones. Scientists have now figured out how the physics of ...

A ‘mock meteorite’ made up of a ball of clay. Researchers used this model to show how objects moving through fluids like water will naturally erode into cone shapes. Image Credit: NYU's Applied ...

While there are already memory materials that are able to change to a given shape when exposed to certain stimuli, researchers from ETH Zurich have created something a little different. Taking ...

"If in the system, whether virtual or real, the graph that represents 'correlations' (the arrows in the same direction) takes on a flask-shaped form rather than a cone, then we know that the particles ...

However, in between these two are "just right" cone shapes that fly straight. "These experiments tell an origin story for oriented meteorites: the very aerodynamic forces that melt and reshape ...