This week in science news: Nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, may break down more rapidly in the atmosphere than ...

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

How Rutherford Chang Made Time, Touch, and Circulation Visible Inside Mass-Produced Objects When people describe Rutherford Chang’s work, you hear words like: obsessive, conceptual, minimalist. These ...

Research shows babies as young as two months old can already categorize what they see, offering fresh insight into early ...

A driver was shocked to discover that a discarded disposable vape had punctured their tire, leading to a costly repair.

A new study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, ...

Babies as young as two months old are able to categorize distinct objects in their brains—much earlier than previously ...

A new study suggests humans can sense hidden objects without touching them, by detecting faint movements in sand. This unexpected form of “remote touch” challenges traditional ideas about how the ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Abstract: Object pose estimation is a core perception task that enables, for example, object manipulation and scene understanding. The widely available, inexpensive, and high-resolution RGB sensors ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an AI-driven robotic assembly system lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects by describing ...

Cambridge, MA – Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But CAD software requires extensive expertise to master, and ...