E pluribus unum—"out of many, one"—is not only a motto for the United States; it's a good credo for microrobots. A research collaboration between Cornell and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent ...

Indoor farms, also known as vertical farms, are popular among agricultural researchers and are expanding across the agricultural industry. Some benefits they have over outdoor farms include the ...

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Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

原子核の構造と反応の理解は、物質の起源や宇宙の進化を解明する上で不可欠だが、量子多体系のシミュレーションは、粒子数や自由度の増加に伴い計算量が指数関数的に増大し、従来の古典コンピュータでは対応が困難という課題を抱えている。特に、核子 (陽子と中性子)の間に働く「強い力」 (強い相互作用)は複雑であり、原子核物理学における多体系問題は計算不可の高い領域として知られてきた。

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

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The entrepreneur and former MIT professor thinks practical humanoid robots and superintelligence are centuries away.

Every device that touches the internet leaves tiny digital breadcrumbs behind. Chief among them is the IP address, a string of numbers that acts like the mailing label of your connection. With a ...

For centuries since the Sun was declared the center of the solar system in the 16th century, society held the belief that any object orbiting the bright star would be considered a planet. From Mercury ...

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Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...