A newly opened exhibition at the China Traditional Culture Museum shows how artisans from Anxi county, Quanzhou, Fujian province, combine bamboo, rattan and metal to create works that enrich living ...

A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by ...

New extraordinary images of the interstellar object flying through our solar system have been released, sparking fresh theories about its origins. Although most scientists have concluded that the ...

SYDNEY, Australia – Government demand continues to spur investment in commercial space stations, satellite servicing and space logistics, paving the way for more space asset reuse and repurposing, ...

No two companies are as important to the recent AI boom as OpenAI and Nvidia. OpenAI’s journey from research lab to chatbot juggernaut reoriented the entire tech industry around the thesis that ...

“The action will clearly fuel ‘circular’ concerns,” Stacy Rasgon, an analyst with Bernstein Research, wrote in an investor note after the deal was announced. Those concerns have followed Nvidia, to ...

Astronomers have been fascinated after spotting an object earlier this year that came from interstellar space as is now hurtling through our inner solar system. Regardless, it’s an interesting visitor ...

As well as a refreshed new look for system components like buttons and tabbars, the Liquid Glass redesign of iOS 26 also extends to app icons. For the first time since iOS 7, Apple has redrawn all of ...

Abstract: Recognition of occluded objects in unseen and unstructured indoor environments is a challenging problem for mobile robots. To address this challenge, we propose a new descriptor, Topological ...

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The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...