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

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

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.

Astronomer Avi Loeb argued that other objects like interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be useful for reaching out to aliens, if they exist.

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 ...

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 ...

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

A foreign object is something in the body that doesn’t belong there. It may be accidentally or intentionally swallowed or lodged in the ears, nose, eyes, skin, and airways. Many types of foreign ...

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 ...

It’s a warning you see in basically every car: “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.” But why can’t passenger-side mirrors display objects accurately? Well, it’s actually a careful design ...