I, like so many others of that generation lost to the internet, have been thinking about friction lately. How technology’s promise of seamless interconnection across people, geographies, and time has ...

Carnegie Mellon researchers have proven that widely available earbuds can double as heart-monitoring devices, capturing subtle cardiac activity with near-clinical accuracy and potentially expanding ...

The No. 1 movie on Netflix this weekend — by a long shot — was a sci-fi actioner called “War Machine,” starring “Reacher” breakout Alan Ritchson, but what many might not know is the film was actually ...

Chinese researchers have uncovered a surprising method for teaching humanoids to carry out everyday tasks. The intriguing study took place in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, where a group of humanoid ...

People’s trust in media is terrible: bad. Attempts to fix that: good. Now, what the heck are they? Facing the fallout from the presidential election, the rise of fake news, and the stark challenges of ...

In a laboratory in Wuhan, China, a group of humanoid robots is being trained like students in a classroom - learning everything from making coffee to doing chores. Engineers are collecting huge ...

To our eyes, they often are a blur. But high-speed cameras show us what makes these birds perfect flying machines. A captive Anna’s hummingbird feeds while hovering before an optical illusion in a ...