I/ATLAS, the interstellar object discovered in 2025, reveals the estimated population, composition, and distribution of ...

Most valuable objects don’t look valuable at all. They sit in drawers, closets, basements, and attics because they were once ...

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

At the heart of every camera is a sensor, whether that sensor is a collection of light-detecting pixels or a strip of ...

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

Astronomer Avi Loeb argued that other objects like interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be useful for reaching out to aliens, if they exist.

Visual objects in the real world are seen in contextual scenes. These contexts are usually coherent in terms of their physical and semantic content, and they usually occur in typical configurations.

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But CAD software requires extensive expertise to master, and many tools ...

A foreign object is something in the body that doesn’t belong there. It may be accidentally or intentionally swallowed or lodged in the ears, nose, eyes, skin, and airways. Many types of foreign ...

U.S. fighter jets have shot down four high-altitude objects this month — including the first instance in which the North American Aerospace Defense Command "has taken kinetic action against an ...

In the 1920s, it wasn’t just hemlines that were on the rise. Bathing suits were getting shorter, too. But fashion 100 years ago still looked pretty different, as these rather formal-looking togs ...

You often hear the term "objectification" to describe media depictions of women, but it also comes from a less expected source: women themselves. Over the course of their lives, there are many subtle ...