Consider the marvelous physics of the human knee. The largest hinge joint in the body, it has two rounded bones held together ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

Omni NDE cobots, X-ray end effectors and Voxray’s reconstruction approach enables 5-micron inspection of aerospace parts without size constraints.

Achieving precise and predictable motion remains a persistent challenge for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), where many actuators respond ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Every medication in your cabinet, every material in your phone's battery, and virtually every compound that makes modern life work started as a molecular guess, with scientists hypothesizing that a ...

A new artificial intelligence approach combines deep learning with physical modeling to extract detailed aerosol properties from complex satellite observations. By learning how light intensity and ...

Robotiq says it has combined adaptive gripping with high-frequency tactile sensing, enabling robots to generalize across objects.

The life of 20th century artist Nicolas de Staël has been mythologized ever since he ended it by jumping from his studio age 41, at the height of his career, in 1955. At times, experts say the myth ...

Segway, the creators of those unique self-balancing stand-up scooters, have stepped into the ebike game. After a slow tease building up to the release of their two debut models, the Xyber and the ...