A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

Yellow waves show propagating atomic vibrations observed at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source. In a smart, switchable ceramic, an electric field aligns ...

Flipping classroom learning, Yudu Robotics, a robotics-ed company, is using exploratory methods and programmable hardware to quietly build career-focused ...

The argument took place in light of the court's 2022 Bruen decision, which held that for a gun law to be constitutional, it ...

Researchers have built AI systems capable of steering targeted brain circuits in real time, moving neuroscience closer to ...

No body, no dopamine, no problem. Scientists have successfully coached lab-grown brain tissue to solve a classic robotics challenge, proving that the will to learn is hardwired into our neurons.

Chevrolet has created a genuine hypercar with the ZR1X—one that matches outlandish performance to assured control.

When we learn a new motor skill—whether mastering a piano passage or refining balance while walking—the brain must reorganize the circuits that ...

Environment / Books & the Arts / James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, asks if it’s too late for humanity to ...

Imagine balancing a ruler vertically in the palm of your hand: you have to constantly pay attention to the angle of the ruler and make many small adjustments to make sure it doesn't fall over. It ...

Astrocytes use the MEGF10 receptor to prune synapses in the striatum, a process essential for dopamine-driven motor learning.

The latest chapter in an ongoing legal battle between Abbott Laboratories and parents of babies born prematurely is set to ...