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Robot vacuums have steadily improved their cleaning performance and object avoidance over the years, but during our testing at CNET Labs, we discovered an odd trade-off.

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Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

C hina has decided to take hypergravity to a whole new level – testing both materials and fundamental physics in a regime we ...

Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...