Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does ...
Click on the toothbrush in this messy bathroom. Most people will quickly spot the toothbrush on the front of the counter, but take longer — or even fail to find — the much bigger one behind it. The ...
Time for your close-up, Mr. Germ. A professor at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a smartphone attachment that enables the imaging of objects one-thousandth ...
Researchers at the Universities of Sussex and Bristol, in collaboration with Ultrahaptics, have now built a working tractor beam that uses high-amplitude soundwaves to generate an acoustic hologram ...
How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team ...
We have a bathroom scale in our master bedroom. I use it regularly to weigh myself. It works fine. Lately, using the same bathroom scale, I have tried to weigh some paintings and small packages. When ...
Though they've both been sized up in the Super Smash Bros. series, Olimar; the protagonist of Pikmin, Pikmin 2, and Hey! Pikmin; as well as Alph; one of three protagonists in Pikmin 3; are canonically ...