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Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help ...

Fan-built C-3PO head becomes a talking desktop robot, combining 3D printing and AI voice tech for interactive home use.

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Will Valve be able to make a Steam Machine for less than $1,000 like someone on YouTube did? Is Diablo 4 really coming to Switch 2 anytime soon? And why is Krafton no longer publishing Subnautica 2 on ...

On April 16th at the Hollywood Theater, a film shot entirely in Portland and with a bicycle as a central character, will have its Oregon premiere. A Simple Machine is more than just a film, it’s a ...

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...

Your First Look at the New Star Wars LEGO Sets Two new ‘Star Wars’ LEGO sets are dropping just in time for May the 4th. The rumored build is said to include 12,060 pieces and a $600 price tag, making ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...