Cats love to groom themselves almost as much as they love to sleep, spending up to one-quarter of their waking hours cleaning their fur. The secret to their self-cleaning success? The spines on their ...

PITTSBURGH, July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — “I wanted to create a new tool for cleaning curved windows and hard-to-reach glass areas found on fire trucks, motor homes, farming equipment, campers, ...

Autodesk provided their usual monthly update to Fusion 360, and there were a couple of new features of interest. Fusion 360 is a very popular 3D CAD tool among 3D printer operators because it is quite ...

Extrusion is currently limited to only along a single direction. To create items such as pipe bends, an extrusion needs to take place along a 1D curve. This will aid in applications for the ...

Abstract: We present a GPU-based framework for extracting surface and curve skeletons of 3D shapes represented as large polygonal meshes. We use an efficient parallel search strategy to compute ...

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an improved device for cleaning the water surface of a swimming pool," said an inventor, from Yonkers, N.Y., "so I invented the STINGRAY ...

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Noting concerns over the costs of defeating recent unmanned attacks such as those employed in the US Navy (USN) in the Red Sea with traditional shipboard weapons, the USN has been testing ...

Polarimetry of the Moon reveals characteristics of the lunar regolith such as the size and composition of regolith grains, which are useful in understanding the surface properties and to determine ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 12 (March 22, 2022), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) Light propagation on a two-dimensional curved surface embedded in ...