How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists have sought to ...

Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, a multiuniversity, ...

Gripping demonstration: researchers test the Octa-glove in the lab of Michael Bartlett. (Courtesy: Alex Parrish/Virginia Tech) Inspired by the way the skin on octopus arms works, researchers at ...

The mind's eye as interpreter -- What is saved and why -- What is broken and how -- The balance of shapes -- Some visual elements in art -- Searching for light -- Einstein's relativity and the escape ...