Playing linear number board games, those where players move pieces along a straight numbered path, can significantly strengthen young children’s math skills, according to a new report  by the HEDCO ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

A study from Germany suggests your horse is better with numbers than you might have thought. Researchers at the University of Gottingen trained three Shetland ponies to select images that matched a ...

The interstellar visitor blazing through our solar system shows startling signs that it may not be a comet, but something truly alien. The object, known as 3I/ATLAS, recently survived a scorching ...

"We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity," says Dr. Faizal. "Therefore, no physically complete and ...

From sorting objects in a warehouse to navigating furniture while vacuuming, robots today use sensors, software control systems, and moving parts to perform tasks. The harder the task or more complex ...

Abstract: This paper explores the idea of manipulation-aided perception and grasping in the context of sorting small objects on a cluttered tabletop. We present a robust pipeline that combines ...

A mysterious "helmet" has been spotted on Mars that has also been likened to a Harry Potter sorting hat. NASA's Mars Perseverance rover snapped the unusually shaped object on the Red Planet this month ...