If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

Apophenia is the mind’s tendency to find meaning in randomness. It shapes creativity, emotion, and misunderstanding, ...

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a ...

A relatively simple experiment involving asking a generative AI to compare two objects of very different sizes allows us to ...

A tiny optical booster built directly onto a chip is pointing toward a future where light, not just electricity, does the ...

The amount of noise The Row’s annual sample sale generated last weekend was perhaps antithetical to the brand’s ultimate quiet luxury status. But what else could be expected? The brand’s legions of ...

Your genes code for all your traits. Some genes are dominant and expressed if you receive a copy from one parent. Others are recessive and only apparent if you receive a copy from both parents. Genes ...

Early and accurate diagnosis of pneumonia is crucial to improve cure rates and reduce mortality. Traditional chest X-ray analysis relies on physician experience, which can lead to subjectivity and ...

A moving-average filter can address white noise in the time domain but performs poorly in the frequency domain. Figure 1. The convolution engine calculates y(tn) for n=6 (a) and then goes on to ...