Our minds have a weird and wondrous way of transporting us to other places and times. You might find yourself, for instance, immersed in the vivid world of a novel, or reminiscing about a potluck with ...

Scientists at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have created a magnetic “metasheet” that can move objects and liquids around without needing robot arms or grippers. The device is essentially a ...

A team from HHMI's Janelia Research Campus has developed a novel system combining virtual reality and a brain-machine interface to probe the rat’s inner thoughts. The rat is harnessed in the VR system ...

The 50 or so items in the show are drawn from the 1.5 million in the museum’s permanent collection CAMBRIDGE — “Moving” is a lexical two-fer. As a verb, it pertains to location, as in getting from one ...

Creativity and imagination are not the same thing. Everything I've learned about imagination over the last very many posts is based on this simple observation. Though they frequently call on each ...

Partha Nandi receives funding from the University of Stellenbosch. as a posdoctoral fellowship. Bibhas Ranjan Majhi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...