Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly being asked to make decisions from evidence that is incomplete, ambiguous or contradictory. A new...

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Childbirth training is moving into the augmented-reality era with a simulator that lets trainees see their hands as “ghost” images,...

A $500 Open-Source Sensor Could Give Urban Railways a Low-Power Way to Count Wheels Urban rail operators may soon have...

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A proposed plasmonic memory cell could give optical neural networks a remarkably compact way to store and adjust information, combining...

A new computer-vision technique could make hidden vibrations and subtle shape changes visible in objects whose boundaries are too complex...

Open-water swimming is often presented as a way to reconnect with nature, improve fitness and support mental health. Yet a...

A new evaporation technique could change the way the smallest transistors are built by allowing researchers to place highly ordered,...

Glycosphingolipids may be tiny components of cell membranes, but they help govern some of biology’s most consequential decisions: how cells...