When Ms. Aguda spoke on craft, she emphasized the importance of presenting “our world, but askew,” insisting that one must be a realist to be a surrealist. The characters in her works are deeply human ...

Old things evoke nostalgia, identity, and emotional continuity. Their stories, imperfections, and endurance help us feel ...

History Colorado has named its newest exhibition “Moments that Made US,” but the most important word in that title is “US.” ...

Hypothetical dark matter stars known as "boson stars" could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe. In 2019, a ...

They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...

One of those tools is 3D scanning. Using portable scanners, it is now possible to capture the full surface geometry of an object with high precision, without touching or damaging it. Every curve, ...

Discover how high-speed wavefront sensing enhances space situational awareness by overcoming atmospheric distortion.

A relatively simple experiment involving asking a generative AI to compare two objects of very different sizes allows us to ...

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins and ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Abstract: Object pose estimation is a core perception task that enables, for example, object manipulation and scene understanding. The widely available, inexpensive, and high-resolution RGB sensors ...