Combining two different kinds of signals could help engineers build prosthetic limbs that better reproduce natural movements, according to a new study. A combination of electromyography and force ...

For a robot, the real world is a lot to take in. Making sense of every data point in a scene can take a huge amount of ...

Perceived similarity offers a window into the mental representations underlying our ability to make sense of our visual world, yet, the collection of similarity judgments quickly becomes infeasible ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Work is currently underway at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg on a new exhibition featuring more than 120 objects from the museum’s extensive collection of 17th-19th-century ...

Researchers unveil the first-ever interactive 3D hologram that lets users manipulate objects projected into thin air with ...

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...

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Together, the three objects point to the area of the Upper Danube River as an important center of cultural innovation during the Upper Paleolithic period (50,000 to 12,000 years ago), Conard wrote ...

Each X-ray pulse only lasts for a few trillionths of a second, enabling time-resolved radiography of objects moving at incredible speeds. “For example, we could one day capture high-resolution ...

However, how the mechanical properties of biofilms are related ... in various ways according to the direction of the applied strain. For example: ⚬Young’s modulus: an object’s tendency to deform in ...

These examples demonstrate how optical tweezers can be used to study mechanics across length scales, ranging from the single-molecule level to fibrils to protein networks. We discuss challenges in ...