Engineering

The device will use artificial neurons and synapses to improve self-driving vehicle and drone performance 

A team of physicists has revealed why rolling suitcases start rocking from wheel to wheel—and how to avoid that frustrating phenomenon. Christopher Intagliata reports.

What does it really mean for a satellite to orbit the Earth? What’s the math behind it? And what’s the math behind the rockets that get those satellites into orbit? Keep on reading to find out!

If flexible smartphones, e-paper and a new generation of smart watches are to succeed, we’ll need to invent something new

IBM AI expert Murray Campbell reflects on the machine’s long, bumpy road to victory over chess champ Garry Kasparov

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American

A new bot uses feedback from sensors to stretch and fold dough 

The growth of renewable energy far from urban and industrial centers is driving a build-out of long-distance direct-current lines 

Alison Gopnik, author of “Making AI Human” in Scientific American’s June issue describes the use of Bayesian statistics to outline how youngsters infer the basics of cause and effect.

Artificial intelligence has staged a revival by starting to incorporate what we know about how children learn

A start-up aims to add new construction to the International Space Station to prep for a private sector orbital outpost

What really happened at Mar-a-Lago on Monday—and what to do if it happens to you