Abstract: Understanding the environment is crucial for autonomous robots to perform navigation and manipulation tasks. Never-seen-before objects may have complex appearances and dynamics, where only ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has argued at length that 3I/ATLAS — the third-ever interstellar object ever detected, currently screaming through the solar system at incredible speed — could be an ...

The presence of harmful PFAS chemicals revealed in formal declarations by companies increased by 30% between January and June of 2025, according to one report, showing how companies must confront just ...

But the surprises just keep coming. The mysterious entity, which was first spotted hurtling towards the Sun from far beyond in early July, has fascinated researchers ever since. As Science Alert ...

Measuring binary star systems' basic properties has proved exceedingly difficult. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article ...

Andrej Prša receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

Abstract: Extended object tracking is concerned with estimation of object properties regarding both the kinematics and extent, i.e., shape. Particular challenges arise in case the orientation of the ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA – A human clearing junk out of an attic can often guess the contents of a box simply by picking it up and giving it a shake, without the need to see what’s inside. Researchers from MIT, ...

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