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 ...

You can taste the ice cream and puffed-corn cone in each bite. Photo: Jed Egan There are plenty of great, distinctive ways to eat ice cream in New York, of course, but there’s now yet another new ...

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 ...