Use discovered for cone-shaped cups that puzzled experts for decades

The cone-shaped vessels that have puzzled archaeologists for decades – until now - Ancient vessels found to have soot ...

Ancient cone-shaped vessels may have served as beeswax lamps during ritual processions, study finds

Chalcolithic cornets are conical ceramic vessels produced exclusively during the Chalcolithic period, recovered in abundance at some archaeological sites but absent at others. Their function has long ...
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Conical-shaped solar panels cooled by forced airflow

A group of international scientists has compared the hypothetical performance of three novel shapes of solar modules – pyramidal, hexagonal and conical – and has found the latter has the strongest ...
Ancient Origins

Mystery of Cone-Shaped Vessels May Be Solved

The research team examined dozens of intact vessels and hundreds of diagnostic sherds, and backed up the use-wear observations with experimental reconstructions, showing that wax-filled replicas can ...
Futurism

Scientists Intrigued by Conical Skull Found in Ancient Burial Ground

Archaeologists in Iran have discovered an ancient cone-shaped skull that is believed to have belonged to a teen girl — and there are signs of tragedy in her bones. As Live Science reports, the skull, ...
Nature

Accuracy of a single rigid conical cuff with standard-size bladder coupled to an automatic oscillometric device over a wide range of arm circumferences

Although the upper arm has the shape of a truncated cone, cylindrical cuffs and bladders are currently used for blood pressure (BP) measurement. The aims of this study were to describe upper arm ...
PBS

Cone-shaped meteorites are ‘just right’ for plummeting to Earth

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 ...