Abstract: This standard is a collaborative effort to improve and standardize the 1.0.3 version Experience Application Programming Interface (xAPI) specification. This Standard describes a JavaScript ...

How everyday things actually work behind the scenes. The mysterious 'third man' who appears when humans are near death; scientists have a theory Border 3 confirmed: Bhushan Kumar says iconic war ...

ABSTRACT: This study applies thing narrative theory to analyze Joyce Carol Oates’s Carthage (2014), examining how material objects function as active agents in trauma narratives. Focusing on Brett ...

Robotic surfaces consisting of many actuators can change shape to perform tasks, such as object transportation and sorting. Increasing the number of actuators can enhance the robot’s capacity, but ...

A new imaging method that can reveal objects concealed behind opaque materials like sand, fog and human tissue for instance, has been developed by researchers at the Institut Langevin in Paris and TU ...

The discovery of 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS showed that significant numbers of interstellar objects populate interstellar space. Their omnipresence means that such objects also reside in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Parents of young children probably recognize the hectic mornings filled with reminding the kids to eat breakfast, brush their teeth and put on their shoes – and hurry up, you’re ...

Summary: A new study demonstrates that some highly gifted dogs can categorize objects not just by appearance, but by how they are used. When taught words like “pull” or “fetch,” these dogs later ...

ABSTRACT: There is a longstanding debate over the relevance of form and function in architecture and design, with different schools of thought representing various perspectives. Indeed, the ...