"We don't have robots that are nearly as good at understanding the physical world as a rat," says Yann LeCun, one of the ...

One seismometer is often not enough to reliably detect earthquakes or human activity such as underground nuclear tests.

A new active-inference account reframes attachment styles as calibrated models of the world—with consequences for how we ...

Most prosthetic hands today still struggle with a fundamental problem: No two amputees are the same, yet most devices are designed as if they are. That mismatch makes natural, intuitive control ...

On Jan. 26, 2026, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea crossed an important threshold for time-domain astronomy. For the ...

A team of engineers at Rice University and Kyung Hee University has developed a soft, shape-shifting mechanical surface that ...

For a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma-the most common infant cancer, occurring when early nerve cells grow out of control-the path to treatment isn't simple.

Spending the bulk of my adult life as a minister and pastor of churches, one Sunday I always somewhat feared was Father’s Day ...

AMD and Intel have now published a full technical specification for ACE — AI Compute Extensions — the most significant overhaul to x86 AI compute in the architecture's history, co-authored by eight ...

Tensordyne says logarithmic computing could reduce AI inference costs and power demands, offering an alternative to conventional chip designs.

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Summary: A highly unconventional scientific alliance has launched a research program to mathematically decode the human psychedelic experience. Detailed in a newly released scientific preprint, the ...