To estimate the weight of a rock, you pick it up. Is it rough, or smooth? You run a finger over it. We're constantly gathering information through our sense of touch, which is closely connected to how ...

The Netherlands said it would give back a major fossil collection to Indonesia, granting its former colony's request to recover historical artefacts, including bones of the "Java Man", the first known ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...

A mysterious object, 31/Atlas, is hurtling towards Earth, sparking debate among scientists. Harvard astrophysicists, led by Avi Loeb, speculate it could be extra-terrestrial technology due to its ...

As robotic materials grow smarter and more responsive, research could guide engineers in shaping systems believed by experts. Human creativity and behaviour can be imitated by evaluating how people ...