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 ...

"The shapes of meteorites are not as they are in space, since they are actually melted, eroded, and reshaped by atmospheric flight," explains Ristroph. "While most meteorites are randomly shaped ...

"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 ...

Flexing graphene may be the most basic way to control its electrical properties, according to calculations by theoretical physicists at Rice University and in Russia. The Rice lab of Boris Yakobson in ...

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That came in over email this week from a reader, Joe Pipe. It’s a good question and a more interesting one than it looks. The short answer is that a cone’s shape does real work that a straight joint ...

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 ...