Weather Zombie Hail: What causes odd hail shapes Severe storms dropped oddly shaped hail in the Quad Cities last month. Here’s what caused that jagged and sharp appearance.

Some of the different digital models and shapes of cooked and uncooked pasta. Graphic: Morphing Matter Lab. Carnegie Mellon University Pasta boxes are bound by the constraints of their contents ...

Trash Gobbling Robots Cleaning Lake Tahoe and Beyond! Science This strange, flat pasta transforms into 3D shapes as you cook Carnegie Mellon University researchers are playing with their food.

“This is not precipitation, but it is large gatherings of birds that are taking off to set out for the day,” a Sunday morning posting from the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, NJ said. ...

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That network was then connected to a pair of robotic arms equipped with a 3D sensor. They called the entire system DexNet 2.0, as it is the next generation of a robotic system they previously built.

Greg Voth at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and his colleagues 3D printed five different shapes that should be isotropic helicoids, each a little more than a centimetre across ...