W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or ...

The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible ...

After all the space drama, astronomers have figured out what that "city killer" asteroid actually looks like: a flat, ...

Colors and shapes are a primal language, Osi Audu, a Nigerian-American artist, said. It makes sense then that while his work is a contemporary response to traditional African art, he isn’t looking to ...

Abstract: Phase-shifting profilometry (PSP) has been widely used with its noncontact and high-precision characteristics in 3-D shape measurement. Motion of the measured object or assembly deviation of ...

The general summation of their mission was that the ARK is “a wooden, gold and silver coffin-shaped object decorated with seraphim, hidden underground in the Middle East and guarded by entities ...

In their simulations, the researchers ran a conically shaped object at Mach speeds against air molecules. The Grainger pair chose the cone shape as a simplified universal representation of most ...

Abstract: Robotic manipulators often face challenges ... simulations and a series of prototype experiments involving a wide range of objects differing in size, weight, shape, and material, ...

The authors started with simulations of slightly irregular objects (either spheres or cylinders) rolling down various degrees of incline, noting that an irregularly shaped object does not always ...

The authors started with simulations of slightly irregular objects (either spheres or cylinders) rolling down various degrees of incline, noting that an irregularly shaped object does not always ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Perseverance acquired this image of the "St. Pauls Bay" target (the dark-toned float block in ...

There is a nonzero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment, careening down a ...