If you’ve picked up a couple of souvenirs in your journey across the stars, you’ll probably want to place them down somewhere on your ship or in your outpost. Or perhaps you just want to mess with ...

Researchers have developed a novel device that couples magnetic fields and kirigami design principles to remotely control the movement of a flexible dimpled surface, allowing it to manipulate objects ...

Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it's true ...

When you walk, it’s the sidewalk that forces you forward. There is no such thing as centrifugal force. Rockets do not move because of the action-reaction law. While you sit reading this, your chair ...

Joseph has been working as a writer for Game Rant since March 2021 and has been a technical writer and journalist since 2019. Having written hundreds of articles over his career and played dozens of ...

'Odd' objects that adapt and move without a brain (w/video) Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists have constructed 'odd' objects that ...

While large language models (LLMs) have mastered text (and other modalities to some extent), they lack the physical "common sense" to operate in dynamic, real-world environments. This has limited the ...

What do puzzles, gymnastics, writing and using maps all have in common? They all rely on people’s ability to visualize objects as they spin, flip or turn in space, without physically moving them. This ...

Partha Nandi receives funding from the University of Stellenbosch. as a posdoctoral fellowship. Bibhas Ranjan Majhi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...