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Researchers at Seoul National University and Kyung Hee University report a framework to control collective motions, such as ring, clumps, mill, flock, by training a physics-informed AI to learn the ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on ...

Google’s design team in Japan seems to be on a roll. They have more dial-based devices in mind, including keyboards for DJs, ...

Scientific sorcery? Japan achieves near-frictionless levitation on macroscopic rotor A research team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), on Friday, announced that it had ...

Motion Twin, the indie developer behind the critically acclaimed roguelike 2D game Dead Cells, has announced its next project, Windblown, at the 2023 Game Awards. Alongside unveiling its next project, ...

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Researchers at OIST built a graphite disk that levitates and spins for hours in a vacuum, showing how perfect magnetic ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know.” Lots of you weighed in with your own nominations, and there were plenty of good suggestions. So I’ve decided to do a ...