Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

The development hasn’t been straightforward. Early versions of the algorithm struggled with shadows and confused driftwood ...

In the football offseason, the defensive tackle for Seattle, and his wife, Hailey, return to their sunny place. By Tim McKeough A midcentury modern house in Santa Monica, a contemporary Spanish-style ...

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