Graduate students at the University of Tokyo have outdone themselves and are changing the way we look at drones with their newest invention. They created a group of futuristic-looking drone prototypes ...

In the blink of an eye, the human visual system can process an object, determining whether it's a cup or a sock within milliseconds, and with seemingly little effort. It's well-established that an ...

A team of physicists and mathematicians at the Institute for Basic Science's Center for Soft and Living Matter, in South Korea, working with a colleague from the University of Geneva, has developed an ...

In the three years since ‘Oumuamua visited our solar system, scientists have struggled to explain some of its more enigmatic features, including its cigar-like shape. State-of-the-art computer models ...

The idea that vision treats object shape in a holistic manner has been a basic theme running through theoretical accounts of perception from early gestalt psychology 11 to more contemporary cognitive ...

Packing a full-sized robot for space travel could pose a bit of a challenge as rockets headed to the Moon, or maybe even Mars, might be a little cramped. The solution: a modular robot that can be ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. One of the highlights of 2017 was the discovery of the first object in our solar system that definitely came from ...

Are you fond of drawing some random doodles? Have you ever imagined some magic tricks that would transform your boring 2D picture into a realistic 3D model? Well then, turning a 2D shape into a 3D ...

If you want to use PowerPoint's capabilities to illustrate how two or more data points compare in magnitude, it might be appropriate in some cases to use proportional shapes to make the comparison.