Chinese researchers have claimed that artificial intelligence (AI) controlled unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) could be the answer for maritime rights and law enforcement in the South China Sea.

Quantum mechanics tells us that a particle can never be perfectly still. But how precisely can it be oriented? A research team at the University of Vienna, together with colleagues at TU Wien and Ulm ...

This is an important study that advances our understanding of the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal gait in a neuromechanical model of the Japanese macaque. The method and results are solid; the ...

Chinese scientists are exploring the possibility of recreating a modern, more sophisticated version of an ancient earthquake sensor allegedly invented nearly 2,000 years ago. The original, called the ...

Earthquakes have haunted humanity for millennia – their sudden violence leaving civilisations scrambling for early warning. Even today, when a Japanese manga implausibly predicted “The Big One” ...

Manuel Endres, professor of physics at Caltech, specializes in finely controlling single atoms using devices known as optical tweezers. He and his colleagues use the tweezers, made of laser light, to ...

It feels surreal to even type these words, but Paste Media is now the official home of The AV Club, the legendary entertainment site founded out of the back pages of The Onion in Madison, Wisconsin, ...

Three years ago, Jared* a 31-year-old venture capitalist, sat in a purple recliner wearing an eye mask, ambient music pulsing through his Beats headphones. As a nurse inserted an IV into his left ...

In this year of multiversal delights, as the likes of Everything Everywhere All at Once were plastering smiles on the faces of befuddled theatergoers everywhere, it somehow makes perfect sense that ...