For the first time in history, we can explore the universe through a rich blend of senses—seeing, touching, and hearing ...

W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or ...

The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible threat to the food we eat ...

Scientists tested crows on their ability to recognize “geometric regularity,” a skill previously assumed to be unique to ...

Quasicrystals, once considered impossible, were found in a 3D-printed aluminum alloy – and they make it stronger. This could ...

But if you hold the needle up in 3D space and try to rotate it in all directions ... This puzzle led to the Kakeya conjecture: It states that the number of dimensions of the traced shape will always ...

This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material. Imagine a ...

We can change our names, shorten them, modify them, resist them, or inhabit them. They become, for many, a crucial part of who we are, but do they control our destiny or shape our character? If you ...

Virtual cameras are tools often used in digital filmmaking and 3D animation to capture and navigate scenes in real time. With Stable Virtual Camera, Stability sought to add generative AI to the ...