Many people know that some animals have more than two eyes, but the variety and function of these extra eyes might surprise you. From reptiles with a hidden “third eye” that senses light, to insects ...

Opt for digital pianos with weighted, graded hammer keys and escapement for an acoustic-like touch and proper technique development. Advanced sound engines, featuring string resonance, sympathetic ...

Researchers explored the potential of stress-controlled and strain-controlled cyclic triaxial testing for liquefaction resistance evaluation of chemically treated soils Soil liquefaction can be a ...

Vibration plates are everywhere right now, so much so that their prevalence was the butt of a joke in a Saturday Night Live sketch this season. Ultimately, these wobbly boards may provide some ...

With its cheesy boardwalk settings and beatnik ambience — bongo player “Chaino” gets singled out in the credits — writer/director Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (1961) proves an apt first-time star ...

Let's be honest, we're all drama queens sometimes. Whether you're texting your bestie you're “literally dying” over the latest celebrity gossip or declaring on social media that Monday mornings are ...

Enjoying the outdoors carries the danger of running into nature’s less-friendly side: toxic plants and animals. As toxicologists at the University of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Poison Center, we see many ...

To a layperson, technology and biological life may seem like opposite poles. However, the tech industry regularly draws lessons from living organisms, striving to build tools and systems that not only ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Everyone is obsessed with humanoid robots right now, but the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory thinks tomorrow’s intelligent physical machines ...

In my last post, Artificial Intelligence and the Shape of Reality, I jumped off the deep end and explored an idea that surprised even me as I wrote it—that the high-dimensional space in which large ...