Illustration by Alisa Gao / The Atlantic. Sources: Al Drago / The Washington Post / Getty; Library of Congress; Marvin Joseph / The Washington Post / Getty. George Washington, this nation’s first ...

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Researchers have unveiled a new method that lets robots handle irregular, curved objects with far greater precision. The system, developed by researchers from the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of ...

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CAMBRIDGE, MA—Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an AI-driven robotic assembly system lets users design and build simple, multicomponent objects by describing ...

An artist's rendition of a collision between two planetesimals in the debris disk around a young star.Thomas Müller Scientists have captured the first direct images of colliding objects in a ...

Hospitals and health systems head into 2026 facing familiar but intensifying headwinds. High labor costs, inflation, supply chain volatility and financial pressures continue to squeeze operating ...

Wade Maki, the chair of the Faculty Assembly, speaks to the UNC System Board of Governors. (Erin Gretzinger for The Assembly) References to “academic freedom” are sprinkled throughout the UNC System’s ...

New technology that invites expressive, two-way communication between a person and the soft, flexible object they are holding or wearing has been developed at the University of Bath. Using this system ...