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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Discover the perplexing phenomenon of thousands of cone-shaped holes in the desert that have left archaeologists scratching their heads. These mysterious formations challenge our understanding of the ...

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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 ...