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Iran says it has placed mines in the Straight of Hormuz to discourage independent traffic. How dangerous are naval mines, and what can be done to clear them?

Human ingenuity is a remarkable thing, but occasionally, it takes a wrong turn into a cul-de-sac of absolute absurdity. We often see people facing a simple, everyday problem and deciding that the most ...

If you’ve ever pointed across a cluttered room and said “that one,” you already know how much human communication depends on more than words. We don’t just describe things – we gesture, glance, and ...

Researchers have commanded swarms of magnetic microrobots to manipulate, rotate, and assemble objects without ever making physical contact. The development is led by researchers from the Max Planck ...

Learn easy and impressive magic tricks using everyday objects you already have at home. These simple step by step illusions are perfect for beginners and require no special props, yet they look ...

MIT researchers have developed a generative AI system that allows users to personalize 3D-printed objects without weakening their structural strength. The system, called MechStyle, tackles a common ...

Physically, sound is just pressure moving through a medium. If you harness that pressure correctly, you can actually push things around using nothing but sound. That's exactly what researchers at ...

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We’re introducing SAM 3 and SAM 3D, the newest additions to our Segment Anything Collection, which advance AI understanding of the visual world. SAM 3 enables detection and tracking of objects in ...

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a classical statistics technique that's used to infer if the unknown means (averages) of three or more groups are likely to all be equal or not, based on the variances ...