As drones survey forests, robots navigate warehouses and sensors monitor city streets, more of the world’s decision-making is ...

Kauai, one of the most remote islands of Hawaii, stands steady among the timeless crash of ocean waves. Electric waves, ...

Glassy materials are everywhere, with applications far exceeding windowpanes and drinking glasses. They range from bioactive ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

nanoBASIC UNO is a minimal BASIC interpreter developed by shachi-lab for 8-bit AVR microcontrollers (Arduino UNO / ATmega328P). It is a modern reconstruction of the original BASIC interpreter written ...

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 ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning. Most artificial-intelligence (AI) models can reliably identify patterns in data ...

When panic and anxiety strike, the body becomes confused, interpreting, overinterpreting, and misinterpreting signals from the brain and reacting with a slew of uncomfortable and sometimes frightening ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Scientists at Penn State have developed a groundbreaking way to predict which materials might become superconductors. By combining powerful computer modeling with new theoretical insights, their ...

Smartphone processor and modem maker Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company known mainly for its open source ecosystem of microcontrollers and the software that makes them function. In its ...