Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis—not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass cases ...

Many everyday objects hide clever designs and secret purposes you may have never noticed. Spain suffers second major train crash in days What a break with Europe means for the American economy With ...

It could be something easily overlooked: a folded note in a wallet, a concert ticket or an old key. We’re interested in the quiet keepsakes that people hold on to as proof of love. By Charanna ...

Tesla's Model Y in the U.S. can now be bought with a third row of seats – but this is not the larger, six-seater Model Y L that the company is selling in China. Instead, the third row of seats, which ...

2025 brought us political, cultural and economic chaos, but it also gave us plenty of tangible objects to obsess over, buy and meme. There were the silly, monster-like dolls that sparked a craze among ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

In fiction, magic makes levitation easy. With a simple swish-and-flick of his wand, Ron Weasley yanks a troll’s club high above its head in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Through graceful ...

Gene Simmons made quite the eyebrow-raising comment on live TV. The KISS frontman, 76, took a trip to Washington, D.C. this week to advocate for the American Music Fairness Act, which would ensure ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

Abstract: Motion planning for deformable object manipulation has been a challenge for a long time in robotics due to its high computational cost. In this work, we propose to mitigate this cost by ...