The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

What physical processes govern the movement of microscopic structures capable of interacting with their environment? The ...

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

The low-power operation is done using a redesigned on-chip power management unit with a configurable, multichannel single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) buck converter. You can send press releases ...

Thinking ahead is a skill taught to learner drivers from the outset – and the intelligent wheels being developed by Professor Matthias Nienhaus’s research team at Saarland University seem to do just ...

A plant never whispers when it needs water. It wilts, it droops, it gives up—often long before anyone notices. That silent ...

The Winter Olympics are officially underway, and that means it’s time for more curling. One of the most unique and oldest sports in the world, curling has a rich history that dates all the way back to ...

Researchers recently tried an experiment: Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that ...

One of the original and most important reasons Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) became the de facto protocol for Internet of Things (IoT) is its ability to connect and control devices that ...

Good manners never go out of style, but they do occasionally need to be refreshed. In workplaces everywhere, that refresher couldn’t come sooner. In the decade since the previous edition of “Emily ...

Nine to five is still alive. Sort of. A new survey of labour-force data by Amory Gethin of the World Bank and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley finds that the world’s employed ...

As the government shutdown nears its 40 th day, Republican senators are balking at President Donald Trump’s demand to end the filibuster, a rule change that would allow a simple Senate majority vote ...