AR As A Sustainability Tool: Replacing Physical Infrastructure With Digital Layers

AR is becoming a practical tool for sustainability, resource efficiency and improving urban environments, turning digital ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Lucas, G. and Dawdy, S.L. (2025) Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart. Routledge.

ABSTRACT: This study applies thing narrative theory to analyze Joyce Carol Oates’s Carthage (2014), examining how material objects function as active agents in trauma narratives. Focusing on Brett ...
GlobalSpec

Scientists create matrix that functions like a fingerprint scanner to spot hidden objects

A new imaging method that can reveal objects concealed behind opaque materials like sand, fog and human tissue for instance, has been developed by researchers at the Institut Langevin in Paris and TU ...
eLife

Differential destinations, dynamics, and functions of high- and low-order features in the feedback signal during object processing

Revised: This Reviewed Preprint has been revised by the authors in response to the previous round of peer review; the eLife assessment and the public reviews have been updated where necessary by the ...
earth

Dogs learn like toddlers, assigning word meanings by function, not appearance

Humans begin learning words as infants, naturally linking them to meanings and associations. A fork connects to a bowl because both relate to eating. New research shows that dogs can form similar ...
Observer

At Sean Kelly, Anthony Akinbola’s Bold Exploration of Medium and Metaphor

Camouflage is recognized in science as a form of mimicry, in which an organism or object adopts the appearance of its surroundings to evade detection. It is a physical phenomenon driven by chemical ...
IEEE

Automatic Learning System for Object Function Points from Random Shape Generation and Physical Validation

Abstract: In this paper, we aim to recognize function points of category-agnostic objects and perform object manipulation. To recognize function points of various shapes, it is necessary to train with ...
Quanta Magazine

The High Cost of Quantum Randomness Is Dropping

Randomness is essential to some research, but it’s always been prohibitively complicated to achieve. Now, we can use “pseudorandomness” instead. Nothing is certain in the quantum realm. A particle, ...
The New York Times

Keeping a Dance Alive, Even After the Show Ends

Performances in N.Y.C. At Art Basel Miami Beach, the Mexican choreographer Diego Vega Solorza explores masculinity in a new work and his gallery sells objects from performances. Diego Vega Solorza, a ...