[Uwe] wrote a small program in Visual Basic to calculate the necessary diameter and angle of his conic sections. A bit of cardboard was cut out and pieced together with some very reflective ...

That might sound extra, but if you chop in the same 2" quadrant daily, the angle on your board will ... gently wipe away any extra with a cloth or paper towel. Cutting boards we like that are ...

They considered two main factors: the paper thickness and the slicing angle and built a paper cutting machine to cut into the ...

The experts also considered each paper's angle in relation to the skin as it ... large area upon contact and so was generally unable to cut. Paper neither too thick nor thin, with a thickness ...

The team found, however, a paper cut “sweet spot” at around 65 microns and when the incision was made at an angle of about 20 degrees from the surface. This paper thickness just happens to be close to ...

Take a wire, cut it to around 12 inches (30.48 cm) and bend it to a 90° angle. Hook both ends and ... piece of butcher paper and fold a crease in the middle of it to line up with the crease ...

Have students cut out the astrolabe silhouette from ... At this point they should press the string against the cardboard and record the angle at which the string crosses the scale.

“Our preliminary data indicate that a successful paper cut is physically impossible outside a relatively narrow range of ...

Look beyond the store this season and lean into eco-friendly and inexpensive autumn decorating with real fall foliage.

If the baseboard is heavily painted and might pull paint or paper from ... twice and cut once. For the second row, do the same thing, but this time, hold that first piece at an angle, inserting ...

Scoring bread does more for your loaf than simply making a pretty pattern. We spoke to an expert baker for the lowdown on why ...

A new article describes a fingernail-sized machine that can twist thin materials at will, replacing the need to fabricate twisted devices one by one.