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Simple Software Creates Complex Wooden Joints That Interlock With No Nails, Glue, or Tools Needed
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An interactive system to design and fabricate structurally sound wood joints. Wood is considered an attractive construction material for both aesthetic and environmental purposes. Construction of useful wood objects requires complicated structures and ways to connect components together. Researchers...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and algorithms have the capability and are currently being utilized to exacerbate radicalization, enhance polarization, and disseminate racism and political instability, according to an academic from Lancaster University. Joe Burton, a professor of International Security...
Researchers have found that animals often employ “good enough” strategies for tasks like foraging, which are less optimal but still effective, challenging traditional views of behavioral optimization and providing a new framework to understand these strategies’ relationships and br...
Stephen Wolfram shows us what it's like to be a science advisor to a sci-fi movie.
>She calls these people “visual thinkers” – the kind of students who, as children, are usually good at art and building things. And they’re in good company in the world of science, she says, mentioning Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and Jane Goodall. They tend to be good at designing experiments and in...