Sparks’ Crew notices that ice cream cones are pointy on the bottom. You can’t make an ice cream cone stand up by itself. The cone doesn’t balance. It wobbles and falls down. You and your child can use ...

The human brain creates visual categories as a fundamental aspect of cognition. Infancy is a crucial period of life for such representations to be built up, but these are as yet unknown. A recent ...

CosmiQ Works and AI.Reverie released a high-resolution dataset in 2020 called RarePlanes, to help people test the value of synthetic data. Maxar WorldView-3 satellite imagery is shown in the top two ...

The “Clapper”, literal snail mail, anti-gravity underwear – there are reasons why all of these objects are extinct. But now, a new book is exhuming them from the trash heap of history. In “Extinct: A ...

Students will be able to explain that the parts of an object can be rearranged to create a new object. Students will also get a sense of the number of different objects that can be created from a ...

Astrophotography, and astronomy in general, takes some fairly specialized tools and a high amount of precision. Setting up the equipment can also take a lot of time, especially for amateurs traveling ...

Originally from Seattle, Washington, Madison now lives in The Netherlands with her husband and their terrier Hyperion. When not doing freelance writing, Madison loves playing video games, crafting, ...

Do humans learn the same way as computers? Cognitive psychologists have debated this question for decades, but in the past few years the remarkable accomplishments of deep-learning computer systems ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a better prosthetic hand that uses a hybrid design to carefully grip various objects with just the right amount of pressure. The robotic ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Google's new Lens app can be pointed at various objects and places to tell you what they are, offer reviews, and even automatically connect to WiFi networks. Follow ...