It’s said that life can imitate art. This usual means something happens in the real world that plays out like a novel or a ...

A pair of US researchers have developed a new model to tackle a deceptively simple problem: how a small block of ice melts while floating in calm water. Using an advanced experimental setup, Daisuke ...

Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with their collaborators, have conducted a random multipolar driving experiment on a large, two-dimensional ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

Deep learning is increasingly being used to emulate cloud and convection processes in climate models, offering a faster ...

Biological processes that govern our lives are many, intertwined, and often difficult to understand. They involve countless ...

A long-standing law of thermodynamics turns out to have a loophole at the smallest scales. Researchers have shown that quantum engines made of correlated particles can exceed the traditional ...

After years of testing its humanoid robot (and forcing it to dance), Boston Dynamics' Atlas is entering production. The robotics company said at CES 2026 that the final product version of the robot is ...

In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. For decades, ...

Boston Dynamics says Atlas’s humanoid design lets it work in existing factories, handling tasks like sequencing and kitting without redesigns.Boston Dynamics/YouTube Robotics player Boston Dynamics ...

Fragmentation, or how things break, may seem like a truly random process, but new study shows that fragmentation will actually follow a process to maximize entropy. This behavior is a manifestation of ...