Most valuable objects don’t look valuable at all. They sit in drawers, closets, basements, and attics because they were once ...

In the world of magic, levitation looks like a simple spell. In movies and TV series, characters lift objects with a wave of ...

The 2025 ELLE DECOR Design Awards honor the visionary creators and objects redefining how we live with beauty and purpose.

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But ...

Eleanor Watson, David Martin, Robert Legare, Sara Cook, Nancy Cordes and Ed O'Keefe contributed reporting. The Associated Press also contributed reporting. When a Chinese spy balloon floated across ...

Visual objects in the real world are seen in contextual scenes. These contexts are usually coherent in terms of their physical and semantic content, and they usually occur in typical configurations.

Both boson stars and Q-balls, which live under the more general heading of exotic astrophysical dark objects (EADOs), are ...

In the 1920s, it wasn’t just hemlines that were on the rise. Bathing suits were getting shorter, too. But fashion 100 years ago still looked pretty different, as these rather formal-looking togs ...

U.S. fighter jets have shot down four high-altitude objects this month — including the first instance in which the North American Aerospace Defense Command "has taken kinetic action against an ...

The Dutch government is returning 478 objects looted during colonial times to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Following multiple claims from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Nigeria, the Dutch Secretary of State for ...

You often hear the term "objectification" to describe media depictions of women, but it also comes from a less expected source: women themselves. Over the course of their lives, there are many subtle ...