An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where the brain misinterprets what the eyes perceive, creating a false or misleading impression of reality. This occurs because the brain processes visual ...

LONDON – British actress Prunella Scales, best known for playing the formidable Sybil Fawlty in comedy show "Fawlty Towers," died Monday, Oct. 27. She was 93 Her sons confirmed her death in a ...

Researchers developed a method to pattern gold nanoparticles with atomic precision, creating patchy particles with new shapes and functions for advanced technologies. (Nanowerk News) Inspired by an ...

With atomic stenciling, researchers have made a variety of patterned patchy nanoparticles with new shapes and properties. Illustration by Maayan Harel. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Inspired by an artist’s ...

The human brain can concurrently support a wide range of advanced mental functions, including attention, memory and the processing of sensory stimuli. While past neuroscience studies have gathered ...

Scroll through your Instagram feed these days and you may notice that solid colors aren’t the primary choices for couch upholstery anymore. From home tours to hospitality environments to new retail ...

When the team at Anysphere launched Cursor in 2022—an AI coding assistant—they weren’t a well-funded giant. They were a lean group of developers building a smarter way to write code. Within months, ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

Alexandr Wang, 28, is the billionaire founder of Scale AI, an AI training data startup. Wang told employees in a memo last week that he is leaving Scale AI for Meta. Here’s what to know about Wang and ...