cut-and-dried

The complex interactions of fluid and soft matter physics prove challenging to simplify into cut-and-dried formulae.

She has taken a cut-and-dried case based on overwhelming evidence and made it a long shot to be tried this year, when it matters most.

That’s because of two aspects that are anything but cut-and-dried: copyright law and a new technology.

Because nothing in science is ever that cut-and-dried, however, it’s not quite that simple.

Yet the truth may not be as cut-and-dried as company stats make it seem, says Steven Shladover, an engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been studying vehicle automation for 50 years.