On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Abstract: Deployment of robots in dynamic environments requires reactive trajectory generation. While optimization-based methods, such as Model Predictive Control focus on constraint verificaction, ...

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Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Whether on the patio with a cool summer breeze or gathered around a coffee table by the fire on a chilly night, there’s something special about game night with loved ones. Until, of course, you can’t ...

There is something so infectious about a dance sequence that, even in movies and TV shows in which they occur pretty much out of nowhere and, in theory, should not work, they still do in most cases.

The participants must be dismissed from the NSA by Friday, official says. More than 100 intelligence community employees will be terminated and have their security clearances revoked as the ...

The 2003 musical and 2024 movie don't include all of the explicit elements in the book, though they do reference animal cruelty, xenophobia, and other dark themes. In November 2024, the movie "Wicked, ...

I didn’t find math particularly exciting when I was in high school. To be honest, I only studied it when I went to university because it initially seemed quite easy to me. But in my very first math ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

At the Venice Film Festival, the star said he embraced the scenes with sexual encounters: ‘If I wasn’t in the movie and saw this movie, I’d want to be in it.’ By Kyle Buchanan Reporting from Venice If ...