A watched pot never boils, goes the old saying, but many of us have at least kept an eye on the pot, waiting for the bubbling to start. It's satisfying to finally see the rolling boil, behind which ...

F iguring out where to place trash and recycling bins is a common design dilemma, especially if your kitchen is on the smaller side. Even if you do find the perfect spot, there's ...

Crows have a sense of geometric intuition much like our own, a new study reveals. They can detect the 'odd one out' in a set of geometric shapes, and have an affinity for geometric regularity – shapes ...

Recycling robots are using artificial intelligence to learn how to sort recyclables by recognizing patterns in colors, ...

Researchers have discovered a "shape-recovering liquid" that appears ... they found that interactions between the nickel particles "sort of took over" to create what appeared to be a violation ...

Mattel has conducted a study called “The Shape of Play,” proving that play is really for everyone. For 80 years, Mattel has been at the forefront of play. This first-of-its-kind global research study ...

Shape sorters have been around for centuries and have evolved into many different forms, all with the same general concept. They consist of some sort of container with indented or perforated slots ...

“The crows show a sort of intuitive, strictly perceptual recognition ... in front of a digital screen in a laboratory. They displayed six shapes on the screen, then trained the birds to peck ...

he said. "Like, part of it is sort of obvious, where it's like — use it, experiment, try stuff out, do crazy things, make mistakes, get it wrong." It's technology's users, Suleyman added ...