The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

More traffic on existing railway lines and ever shorter maintenance windows: Operators are facing growing challenges in ensuring safety, availability, and efficiency in the long term, while at the ...

Researchers have commanded swarms of magnetic microrobots to manipulate, rotate, and assemble objects without ever making physical contact. The development is led by researchers from the Max Planck ...

This new map is not only the most detailed view of the universe’s invisible scaffolding to date, it also allows astronomers to look deeper into cosmic history. Reading time 3 minutes Dark matter—the ...

A mystery object feared to be an alien ship heading to Earth could be steered by 'technological thrusters', a boffin fears. Photos of the "interstellar anomaly" known as 3I/ATLAS show its jets are not ...

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 ...

Hmmm: Why do some players invert the Y-axis in video games? To many, it seems strange to make down mean up and up mean down. For inverters like me, it feels natural – the default setting is as awkward ...

What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has taken a bold approach to the mystery. By using quantum computing and machine ...